Fortress Britain and a gift to terrorists
Mail Comment
15th November 2007
The Daily Mail
As if it's not difficult enough to get through our airports already, foreign travel is about to get even more exasperating.
You'd think ministers might have hesitated, after the tens of billions they've blown on a succession of IT disasters, before signing yet another cripplingly expensive contract for a computer database to keep tabs on us all.
But no. Here's the Home Secretary, blithely signing away another £1.2billion of our money for a project that threatens to turn even a day-trip to Boulogne into a nightmare of electronic bureaucracy.
With utter contempt for privacy, she's demanding that travel companies should supply the Government with up to 53 - yes, 53 - pieces of personal information about each of their customers, from credit card details to contact numbers.
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