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BBC’s Secret “TV Detector” Vans Not So Secret… Sorta

Did you know you have to pay a licensing fee when you buy a TV in the UK and that money is used to subsidize the cost of running the BBC? Yea… I didn’t either. Well your gut reaction might be “who cares, how can they possibly police that?” As fate would have it, Chris Hunkele [...]

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UK Government Needs $20 Billion for Increased Spying Program

Want to see an agenda get sold? Check out the front page of Slashdot on Sunday. More specifically, earlier today: UK Government Says More Spying Needed “Our wonderful government here in the UK has decided we’re not being surveilled enough, and agreed to spend £12 billion on a programme to monitor every Briton’s phone calls, e-mails, and [...]

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