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10-15-2008, 09:23 AM
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I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watchin Me...
I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watchin Me...
by RS Davis The Freedom Files  Hello Freedomphiles! Check out my new Nolan Chart exclusive about the UK's new ramped-up surveillance society, and their plan to monitor and record all of their citizens' interactions with each other. Excerpt: I'm a big fan of the UK - a total anglophile. I mean, so much cool has come out of America's alma mater - the Beatles, The Sex Pistols, the Magna Carta, The Clash, X-Ray Spex, human rights, The Specials, The UK Subs, and George Orwell, who in 1948 predicted the society upon whose doorstep they now stand. A full seventy-nine percent of UK citizens consider their country to be a surveillance society. It's no surprise, as according to a 2006 study, there is one government camera for every fourteen citizens. Human rights group Privacy International calls the UK the "worst Western democracy at protecting individual privacy." Richard Thomas, Britain's Information Commissioner, was so concerned, he called for an assessment of English privacy, saying, "We've got to say where do we want the lines to be drawn? How much do we want to have surveillance changing the nature of society in a democratic nation?" In response, the Home Office did a study on national surveillance, and like most government pokenoses, didn't see a problem, pronouncing that "the UK is not becoming a surveillance society." Apparently, to them, that was a bad thing. I reported earlier this week of a leaked government document, showing that the UK is planning to "monitor every British citizen's emails, internet browsing records, and telephone conversations," having already invested £1 billion and planning for another £12 billion for a huge government database to hold it all. The National DNA Database already holds the DNA and fingerprint records of over four million people, and adds another 30,000 a month. Click here to read the rest, and as always, please don't forget to click the thumbs-up icon at the top of the article.
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