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Taking Liberties
2007 · Film · documentary · 101 min
Directed by Chris Atkins
Taking Liberties Since 1997is a documentary film about the erosion of civil liberties in the United Kingdom and increase of surveillance under the government of Tony Blair. It was released in the UK on 8th June 2007. The director, Chris Atkins, said on 1 May that he wanted to expose "the Orwellian state" that now threatened Britain as a result of Mr Blair's policies.
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This is the end game that multiple British governments have been aiming at for decades. "Let's ban encryption" has been on the table at least as far back as Cameron, I think maybe also Blair. It kept getting knocked back (because obviously a blanket ban on encryption is ridiculous) but then it comes back in a slightly different form. It's been proposed at least 3 times that I can think of in the last 20 years. There's a documentary from the 90s called taking liberties which is part of what got me interested in privacy, if you watch it you'll see how long that's been building.