The rise of the surveillance society
Adam Smith Institute
by Daniel Button
07/08/09
Following the 9/11 and 7/7 terrorist attacks, there has been an exponential increase in Britain’s surveillance: currently, Britain has a quarter of the world’s security surveillance cameras with around four million cameras in use and we are currently the world’s most watched nation — something which is very unnerving and reflective of the surveillance dystopia envisaged by George Orwell in his fictional work ‘Nineteen Eighty Four.’ The steady expansion and the overuse of the surveillance in Britain risks undermining the right to privacy; it poses a huge risk to individual liberty; and one more step towards a police state in the United Kingdom...
http://tinyurl.com/ksfjfx
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Orwell
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Daniel+Button
by Daniel Button
07/08/09
Following the 9/11 and 7/7 terrorist attacks, there has been an exponential increase in Britain’s surveillance: currently, Britain has a quarter of the world’s security surveillance cameras with around four million cameras in use and we are currently the world’s most watched nation — something which is very unnerving and reflective of the surveillance dystopia envisaged by George Orwell in his fictional work ‘Nineteen Eighty Four.’ The steady expansion and the overuse of the surveillance in Britain risks undermining the right to privacy; it poses a huge risk to individual liberty; and one more step towards a police state in the United Kingdom...
http://tinyurl.com/ksfjfx
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Orwell
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Daniel+Button
rudkla - 9. Jul, 11:08
