There isn't a general anything database. I appreciate that people have concerns but the reality is that monitoring and surveillance is extremely labour intensive. If everyone in the world was monitoring a single other person the monitoring would never be complete and we'd die out as a race because no-one would be producing what we need to survive.
Police States don't need big databases to be opressive.
Society is safer because it makes people bear responsibility for their actions, the prospect of being caught deters people. One of the reasons we're made to carry an identification visible to anyone on our motor cars. Traditionally the crossing of international borders has been a place where identification has been necessary. However that's not the original purpose. I far preferred the "requests and requires in the name of Her Majesty" wording, showing the original intent which was "don't mess with him or you'll have me to answer to".
Last edited by Mike Cross; 22nd October 2013 at 14:30.