Freedom of payments is an extension of financial privacy and digital cash-like transactions without financial intermediaries become a critical piece of that foundation.

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The coalition has also announced a number of policies it says will strengthen civil liberties such as scrapping ID cards, extension of the Freedom of Information Act, more protections for the DNA database, protecting trial by jury and regulating CCTV.

BBC: Select Committee

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie asked why an extension of Scotland's freedom of information system was being blocked excluding housing associations, PFI projects and some public bodies.

BBC: First minister's questions