Listening to the ABC this morning, they were talking about the number of surveillance cameras in the UK (about 4,000,000) and the number of times people are surveilled every day (about 300). Britain is the most snooped upon country in the world and the UK'S Information Commissioner is concerned that the UK is sleepwalking into a surveillance society. Pretty scary stuff.
Every episode of The Bill seems to have some unexpected surveillance device that can be used to nab the bad guys. Commander of the Dark Side, Australia's Attorney General seems very keen on more of these things. I am instinctively opposed to everything that he favours. My instinct tells me that this is bad.
Mr Eugenides puts everything in context here. As usual he is spot in identifying the creeping surveillance society.
How do you fight such insidious invasions of human privacy? Leave us alone!
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