Burka in Germany: Interior minister calls for curbs

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Originally Posted by Von Due

And here lies the real conflict. Same thing with encryption. It makes our bank transactions over the internet safe, it gives us privacy online, and it protects terrorists, drug/arms runners, paedophiles etc. This conflict goes back decades.

Eyup, I know some people have baulked at the number of CCTV cameras which have sprung up across London, at the invasion of privacy that such cameras represent, and yet those cameras have definitely been used to apprehend criminals and act as evidence in criminal prosecutions.
I just can't help but think of the words of Ben Franklin though.