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kpete

(71,954 posts)
Sun Jan 4, 2015, 11:13 AM Jan 2015

SHAMEFUL

Anti-terror plan to spy on toddlers 'is heavy-handed’
Nursery staff and childminders are given 'duty' to report toddlers they suspect of being at risk of becoming terrorists under new Home Office measures



Nursery school staff and registered childminders must report toddlers at risk of becoming terrorists, under counter-terrorism measures proposed by the Government.

The directive is contained in a 39-page consultation document issued by the Home Office in a bid to bolster its Prevent anti-terrorism plan.

Critics said the idea was “unworkable” and “heavy-handed”, and accused the Government of treating teachers and carers as “spies”.

The document accompanies the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill, currently before parliament. It identifies nurseries and early years childcare providers, along with schools and universities, as having a duty “to prevent people being drawn into terrorism”.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11323558/Anti-terror-plan-to-spy-on-toddlers-is-heavy-handed.html
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SHAMEFUL (Original Post) kpete Jan 2015 OP
WTF????? hobbit709 Jan 2015 #1
For real? Quantess Jan 2015 #2
Next up ...a Minority Report ...thought police. L0oniX Jan 2015 #3
Terrorists are not born as terrorists seveneyes Jan 2015 #4
 

L0oniX

(31,493 posts)
3. Next up ...a Minority Report ...thought police.
Sun Jan 4, 2015, 11:56 AM
Jan 2015

The New Thought Police
The NSA Wants to Know How You Think—Maybe Even What You Think

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/nsa-police.html

The National Security Agency (NSA) is developing a tool that George Orwell's Thought Police might have found useful: an artificial intelligence system designed to gain insight into what people are thinking.

With the entire Internet and thousands of databases for a brain, the device will be able to respond almost instantaneously to complex questions posed by intelligence analysts. As more and more data is collected—through phone calls, credit card receipts, social networks like Facebook and MySpace, GPS tracks, cell phone geolocation, Internet searches, Amazon book purchases, even E-Z Pass toll records—it may one day be possible to know not just where people are and what they are doing, but what and how they think.
The system is so potentially intrusive that at least one researcher has quit, citing concerns over the dangers in placing such a powerful weapon in the hands of a top-secret agency with little accountability.

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seveneyes

(4,631 posts)
4. Terrorists are not born as terrorists
Sun Jan 4, 2015, 12:27 PM
Jan 2015

But they can be raised to be terrorists by the sick fucks that raise them.

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