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The huge numbers that have signed this
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petition indicate to me that there are
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many in this country that are deeply
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concerned of the direction of travel in
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which we're going. ID cards is one
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thing. Restricting jury trial is
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another. Facial recognition at tube
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stations and now even in supermarkets is
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something that people find deeply
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disturbing. There's a whole vein of
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thought across the country where people
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are feeling a quite reasonable sense of
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paranoia about the levels of
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surveillance under which they're under
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at the present time. And I think members
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of parliament should would do well to
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try and understand that that this attack
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on civil liberties and that's what it is
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means that vast amounts of information
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utterly vast amounts of information on
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all of us will be stored as they are
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already within the health service which
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unfortunately the government is now
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making available to private health care
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interests at the same time. So there's a
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huge issue here about our data, our
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information and our privacy which I
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think we would do well to remember. The
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last point I want to make is the last
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point I want to make is this. This
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debate is being pushed by commercial
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interests. Commercial interests who will
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make a great deal of money out of uh
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providing the necessary technical
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equipment to set up this surveillance
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system that will do very well out of it
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and we are being pushed into agreeing it
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by them. I think it's time for members
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of parliament to say listen to what
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people are saying, listen to the
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concerns, have a proper debate on the
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chamber in the chamber about this and
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say no to the government as we've said
