Surveillance Society


	Surveillance Society

mirzania

8-14-2007 3:51 PM

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surveillance, spying, police, 1984

mirzania says:

The trouble is, this doesn't surprise me at all. Just adds to my loathing of what 'British Scociety' has actually become.

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the national rollout will tighten Britain's web of video surveillance, already the most extensive in the world. The country is watched over by a network of some 4 million closed-circuit cameras, and privacy advocates complain the average Briton is recorded as many as 300 times a day.</BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/uk_rolls_out_po.html">
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