I could not agree with you more. Our Privicy is being attacked and violated from all directions. This ranges from the likes of BT harvesting peoples internet data and passing it to an agency for analysis, through to this government who seem determine to lay everybody's business but their own bare. The amount of data mining that will be required to get anything remotely useful about potential terrorist attacks from these databases is much worse than finding a "needle in a haystack". I fail to see how adding more hay to it will improve things. I will now climb down from my soapbox. :)) ps - what do you do with all the private (but probably inaccurate) data you collect when making people sign-up before issuing a comment? Pot, kettle, black? :)))