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Brown announced new anti-terror laws. |
British prime minister Gordon Brown announced new anti-terror laws: A new uniformed border force will monitor people arriving in Britain, and information on those leaving the country will be shared with foreign security services.
The plan includes the following measures:
- Allowing the police to detain terror suspects without charge for up to 56 days before they have to be charged or released.
- Allowing judges to have greater powers to punish terrorism by making it an aggravating factor in sentencing, and calling for a review of laws banning the use of phone tap evidence in court.
- Allowing intercept intelligence to be used as evidence, saying it could give the police an insight into terrorists' methods.
- Allowing that every person who leaves or enters Britain will be electronically screened under new measures designed to expose terrorists hiding among the traveling public, profiles detailing passengers' criminal records, employment histories, and even spending patterns — derived from credit cards used to buy airline tickets — will be available to security agencies.
The "e-borders" initiative is already being piloted on a number of routes, capturing information on 22 million passengers and leading to more than 12,000 security alerts and 1,000 arrests.
What do you think of these measures? Do you think they will really prevent the terror attacks? Will these measures affect the civil liberties of the British people?
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