Big Brother database threatens to ‘break the back of freedom’

But Sir Ken, giving the Crown Prosecution Service lecture in London, said: “We need to take very great care not to fall into a way of life in which freedom’s back is broken by the relentless pressure of a security state.

“Technology gives the state enormous powers of access to knowledge and information about each of us, and the ability to collect and store it at will. Of course, modern technology is of critical importance to the struggle against serious crime. Used wisely, it can protect us.” >>>>>

Cabinet Office ordered to release secret memos on Iraq dossier

The Government’s case for the war was set out in the dossier about Saddam Hussein’s weapons capabilities, published on 24 September 2002 and overseen by the head of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Sir John Scarlett.

Mr Campbell suggested 11 changes to the draft, which were all adopted in the final week before publication, included changing how biological weapons “could be used” to “are capable of being used”, and changing “may have” to “have”, regarding the authority of Saddam’s sons’ to launch chemical or biological weapons. Tony Blair famously claimed in the document that Saddam could deploy weapons of mass destruction “within 45 minutes of an order to use them”. >>>>>