if I lived there. This is quite insane.

Although the mension of the Catholic church was a cheap dig it does have some truth to it!! Here in britain we have had alot of abuse cases involving catholic priests and children and there has been alot of evidence suggesting that the church itself has encouraged the covering up of these incidents over the years. So, before getting on your high horse maybe you should check out some of the recent abuse cases and also research into the fact the Catholic church has encouraged homosexuals into becoming priests for decades!

Priests - touching little boys since Jan 1st, 0000.

LOL

Priests - touching little boys since Jan 1st, 0000.

LOL

aha! Now i geedit, so this is the brainchild of a group of pedo's and with master keys they can check out all ur kiddies and even make pretty graphs showing the geo location of the most vulnerable kids and organise their mates for a nice picnic in the local park.
But then again I have a few more IQ points to see that UK.gov is full of twisted, self-deluded, pedos and assorted nuts who have been bullied at school way too much so they have to take it out on someone. Give 'em a break! Didn't you know that pedos are people too and we are all the same and live in perfect warmth and harmony.
FUKING CUNTS! Castration in Trafalgar Square!

Todays Telco.p is private vast databaseof J Henries up kiester, each with address & time/Date. It is easy to see why, in 18th century identification was impossiblity with NO Confession & people are Crazy As HairPins. Cum DeLi'.
Today, No Way, Snod is gonna be followed, evaluated, linked, dated & extensive government, purchase & Logged Data will be Precisely Sorted, with internal RED Flag hits Army Stat Tactic, Yeah, ?then You KNOWN. Take Away Their Kiesters Sez Eye, My Mind Reels with Annotated Kindergarden Administated by P.O.W.s', all in FFL Day. YBS. STeWie & TS Drashek

Settle petal! It may not have been particularly new or funny, but it was clearly a joke.

Anyway, God knows the Catholic church deserves most of the satire and ridicule it attracts.

Your unabashed Catholic "Bashing" and not-so-subtle inference about Catholic priests exposes your ignorence, your small-mindeness, your pathetic "rhetoric" and your obvious anti-religious bias.
Keep your disgusting prejudice to YOURSELF, and I just MAY take you more serious than an annoying itch in my crotch. Jerk.

"Its not as if the government is going to lose or misuse any of this data."

Such naivite among the youth of today. Or do they possess irony?

I quote Robbie Williams "In the future, everyone will be anonymous, for fifteen minutes."

I can't believe you would put Catholic priests into the title and then not mention anything about them in the article. Do you even know that the majority of UK is NOT Catholic, and that most of the cases that have to do with priests and kids are in other religions? You must have meant Anglican and not Catholic.

Its not as if the government is going to lose or misuse any of this data.

Unless the files include a photo, I highly doubt any paedophiles in those agencies would bother 'stalking', or whatever, those minors, when there are so many children they see in day-to-day life...