Brave New World--Revisited

It's coming! Just keep an eye on Great Britain as the government seeks to watch, listen and be in all people's everyday existence. This country is at the forefront of abolishing personal liberties. Their CCTV system is unparalleled in the world as one would think this would be the Soviet Union during the Cold War. GB and other EU countries are in the process tagging citizen's cars with GPS for tracking purposes, hiding behind the umbra of using this acquired data as a means to tax driver's mileage. The U.S. is kicking this idea around even now .lakotahope
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Programmes - Law in Action - A spy in your bin?

Is electronic monitoring of rubbish a threat to privacy - or a reasonable way to check how much we chuck?. Page last updated at 15:03 GMT, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 A spy in your bin?

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/law_in_action/7694832.stm

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UK Must Log Web and Phone Use

All internet and phone traffic should be recorded to help the fight against terrorism, according to one of the UK's former spy chiefs.

Civil rights campaigners have criticised ministers' plans to log details of such contact as "Orwellian".

But Sir David Pepper, who ran the GCHQ listening centre for five years, told the BBC lives would be at risk if the state could not track communication.

Agencies faced "enormous pressure" to keep up with technology, he said.

"It's a constant arms race, if you like. As more technology, different technology becomes available, the balance will shift constantly."

The work of GCHQ, which provides intelligence on foreign and domestic threats, is so secretive that until the 1980s the government refused to discuss its existence.

Last year, then Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced plans for a database to record details of the times and dates of messages and phone calls but said the content of conversations would not be kept.

She said such data was used as "important evidence in 95% of serious crime cases" and in almost all security service operations.

'Pervasive'

Details of the times, dates, duration and locations of mobile phone calls, numbers called, website visited and addresses e-mailed are already stored by telecoms companies for 12 months under a voluntary agreement.

However, the Liberal Democrats said the government's plans were "incompatible with a free country and a free people".

In February, the Lords constitution committee said electronic surveillance and collection of personal data had become "pervasive" in British society.

Its members said the situation threatened to undermine democracy.