BIG BROTHER: UK to Mandate Personal Data Storage Seems like Maria and I managed to leave the country just in time. This is so sick it’s impossible to believe, especially coming from the country of the author that gave us 1984. Seems he ended up being more right than he thought he would be.

If businesses insist on lobbying, the logical conclusion is to exclude businesses completely from any political decision-making, in any form. If we accept lobbying, the results will be citizens getting screwed over, again and again. A quote from the paper: While there is a correlation between openness and interoperability, it is also true that interoperability [...]