WRITTEN ON November 2nd, 2006 BY Richard S AND STORED IN Uncategorized
In a few short years, Britain has stormed up the Surveillance Society league: We now rival Russia and China. Databases; Biometrics; ID cards; Tracking; More CCTV cameras than the whole of the rest of the EU. Did we choose this? Does this make us feel safer?
2 Responses to “Britain is Top of the League: Something to Celebrate?”
Wibbi: More public servants had the courage to “tell it like it is.”
(I note that a previous Government e-Envoy has been hired by a potential supplier to the ID scheme.)
Wibbi: The “free” press were not blinded by government ‘spin’ and faked statistics.
Wibbi: That we learnt even just a little from history.
This is a great wave of stuff…credit to Richard Thomas. I suppose the Wibbi is that this stuff gets played into teh political agenda…