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As Gary Marshall points out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigmouthstrikesagain.com\/archives\/1774\">have the UK Government never heard of Skype, e-mail, chat over public WiFi<\/a>, payphones (and do they think that terrorists don&#8217;t have passports)?<\/p>\n<p>There are those who say that, if you&#8217;ve nothing to hide, you&#8217;ve nothing to fear.  I&#8217;ve nothing to hide &#8211; I simply just don&#8217;t trust the government not to mix my details up with someone else&#8217;s in a monumental database administration error.  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