On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 09:43:43AM -0800, Mizter T wrote:

Perhaps they do, perhaps it is. Though if there is some kind of
secretive access to the database it would be being done by GCHQ as
opposed to the police, and they would basically only be interested in
'terrorists' and the like (the question would then be whether they'd
also be interested in tracking e.g. a militant organiser of mass
strikes - I'd think it unlikely).

I'd think it very likely - it's fairly well-known by now that the
various more secretive organs of the state (special branch, gchq,
MIwhatever etc) were interested in the organisers of the miners' strikes
under the thatcher regime, in political activities of students, and in
both tracking and disrupting peaceful protesters since forever. And
it's reasonable to suppose that this has carried on up to the present
day.

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