Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Spooks: Here's A Good Wheeze - Let's Just ASK For The Idiots E-Mail Addresses.
The most spied-upon society in Europe, with more CCTV cameras than the rest of the European Union combined, Britain under New Labour and Tony Blair has become a Surveillance Society, the British a people without a basic right of privacy.
Identity cards and biometric recognition on the way, the national DNA database (which the inventor himself has described as out of control) being steadily added to with the details of ordinary, innocent people.
A £224 million national children's index planned, which will contain the details of every child in Britain. Everything from vaccinations, developmental information, whether a child is eating enough fruit and vegetables, or is struggling in the classroom. Two warning flags on a child's record could trigger an investigation.
Sebastian and Samantha are eating too many french fries, and their apple consumption has fallen - haul in their parents!
Automatic number plate recognition to track people’s movements.
Medical records, without our permission, being put on a database freely accessed by 250,000 health service staff, private health companies, council workers, commercial researchers and ambulance staff.
Even CCTV cameras with microphones for the watchers to listen, and built-in speakers so that instructions can be issued to people in the street.
The organization Privacy International lists Britain in the same league as Russia and China as Endemic Surveillance Societies, not a comparison most people would want to boast about, I would suggest.
Unless your name is T. Blair.
Now, to make us feel secure, MI5, the UK's internal security service have kindly offered, in return for our e-mail addresses, to notify us of any change to the terrorist threat level.
And as the average British citizen has remained disgracefully apathetic to their privacy and liberty being invaded so comprehensively up to now, I assume many will happily e-mail their details to the ‘spooks’ without thought, saving the poor dears the inconvenience of having to trawl for our private e-mail addresses themselves in order to gather even more information for the State.
See all recent posts.
Identity cards and biometric recognition on the way, the national DNA database (which the inventor himself has described as out of control) being steadily added to with the details of ordinary, innocent people.
A £224 million national children's index planned, which will contain the details of every child in Britain. Everything from vaccinations, developmental information, whether a child is eating enough fruit and vegetables, or is struggling in the classroom. Two warning flags on a child's record could trigger an investigation.
Sebastian and Samantha are eating too many french fries, and their apple consumption has fallen - haul in their parents!
Automatic number plate recognition to track people’s movements.
Medical records, without our permission, being put on a database freely accessed by 250,000 health service staff, private health companies, council workers, commercial researchers and ambulance staff.
Even CCTV cameras with microphones for the watchers to listen, and built-in speakers so that instructions can be issued to people in the street.
The organization Privacy International lists Britain in the same league as Russia and China as Endemic Surveillance Societies, not a comparison most people would want to boast about, I would suggest.
Unless your name is T. Blair.
Now, to make us feel secure, MI5, the UK's internal security service have kindly offered, in return for our e-mail addresses, to notify us of any change to the terrorist threat level.
And as the average British citizen has remained disgracefully apathetic to their privacy and liberty being invaded so comprehensively up to now, I assume many will happily e-mail their details to the ‘spooks’ without thought, saving the poor dears the inconvenience of having to trawl for our private e-mail addresses themselves in order to gather even more information for the State.
See all recent posts.
Labels: Liberty, State, Surveillance
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