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  I have not gone through what is proposed, if there is anything yet to look through, but presumably there is something 'new' being proposed.
  As things stand is not such data held for months or years? Are there not now intelligent word or phrase capture protocols?
  This, though, as with the whole ID card proposals, gives me an uneasy feeling and not just because what could be 'chosen', to elicit a prosecution or lead directly to indefinite house arrest, leaves a whole lot that is not chosen and that the defence would not have access to.
  All of which could turn;
  "Where were you on the night of...?"
  into...
  "When you were at ***** and you ate *** and when you texted **** to **** that was code to arrange a meeting at ****, because we know you were both at **** on **** at **** time when the Crown Jewels went missing. Are you telling us all of this is mere coincidence?"
  
  But also this turns us all into mere cyphers. A simple step to take from the Ruler and Subject notion of society in Britain, but a step too far for any Citizen to countenance.
  
  The same people and the same system will still be in place should any such like proposal go through that were in place and missed sundry terrorists and organised criminality as before.
  
  "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"* As the poet wrote a thousand years ago.
  
  [*Who watches the watchmen?]

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