"The outgoing information commissioner has predicted that government will reverse the trend to collect more personal data."

They have actually been reducing the amount of data that they hold for some time. Leaving it on lap-tops, CDs, hard drives etc.......

And, in other news: turkeys vote for Xmas, DARPA launches first squadron of flying pigs, etc etc

"If you are looking for a needle in a haystack, it does not make sense to make the haystack bigger".

Or to fill the haystack with bits of old rope, bicycle chain, Virginia's creepers, hair, Cat 5, guitar strings, used items of feminine hygiene, and so on. You know the pack drill. They don't. In theory they should get hammered. In practise, we will.

Sure, and the Government will realise that it must stop dipping into the tax-payers' pockets, so decides to spend less on quangos for its friends, and so on.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha