Phonecalls and Texts to be Logged for Government
Welcome to Airstrip One, where the Ministry of Love has just issued a new law instructing phone companies to log every call and text made to and from any phone in the country.
Just to ensure that the information isn’t wasted, it is to be made available not only to the Police and Military, but to local authorities too.
In defence of of the decision, Glorious Minister for Security and Counter-terrorism Tony McNulty says that Councils will only be able to use the powers to “prevent and detect crime” and “not for the collection of taxes”.
Perhaps it isn’t the place of a mere prole like myself to point this out, but as not paying your taxes is a crime, collection of taxes will probably fall under the list of things that councils will use the data for, despite anything Comrade McNulty says.
Heil The Party!
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