BA to fingerprint domestic passengers

[Ian Batten]

On 5 Mar 2008, at 18:40, PeteM wrote:

> Meantime here's the latest spiral of the descent;
> http://www.met.police.uk/campaigns/counter_terrorism/ 
> ct_camera_2008.pdf
> When the police start asking you to report people for taking  
> pictures, you *really* know we're in trouble.


At times ukcrypto is close to turning into Slashdot, where the  
summaries bear little relationship to the original article.   The  
entire thrust of that PDF is that thousands of people take pictures  
perfectly innocently, but occasionally one in many thousands isn't,  
and if you get a bad feeling, report it.  That doesn't strike me as  
unreasonable.  If I saw someone outside a bank taking pictures of the  
staff entry procedures as it opens, I'd call it in.  If I saw someone  
three days running pointing a camcorder at the cash delivery at a  
supermarket, I'd call it in.

It's perfectly right to say that assuming that everyone is up to no  
good leads to a police state.  But the opposite to that isn't to  
assume that everyone is as innocent as new-mown grass.

ian