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# Confused about government plans for a huge communications database?
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/confused-about-government-plans-for-a-huge-communications-database/
- Published: 2008-11-06T22:11:47.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:42:12.000Z
- Author: Guy Aitchison
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:49

Guy Aitchison (London, [OK](https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom)): Don't worry, here's [Jacqui Smith](http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200708/jtselect/jtrights/uc1142-i/uc114202.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net) to explain everything:

 **if we face a situation as a government where both** 
**technology and our use of technology means that some of the most important capability that law enforcement uses at the moment is likely to be eroded, then we have to consider what is the most appropriate way to deal with that technologically (number one) and what are the appropriate legal safeguards to put around the way in which we deal with that in the future to safeguard that capability** 

Clearer now? Good. Now stop worrying. We are safe in their hands.(via the [No2ID email](http://www.no2id.net/getInvolved/support.php?ref=opendemocracy.net)). 

Update: No2ID have the [Home Secretary's fingerprints](http://www.order-order.com/2008/11/home-secretarys-biometric-data.html?ref=opendemocracy.net).