UK tops Endemic surveillance league

The latest annual report by the UK based Privacy International advocacy group tells us that an increase in survelliance and decline in privacy safeguards globally has occurred during the last year.

The UK earned top place for having the most endemic surveillance due to having the biggest network of CCTV in the world + Labour plans for a national compulsory ID card rich with personal and biometric information, and minimal comeback for citizens when the government looses this information. And you know they will loose that information.

The report states that the UK Labour government “has access to its people and technology that China doesn’t”. We seem to have runaway adoption of such technologies with little or no progress in safeguards to ensure fair play for you and me as private citizens.

The latest cost estimate by the London School of Economics of the Labour governments ID card plan is £12 to £18 billion during the next ten years. Think how many Police officers that could pay for. Or how fantastic the reabilitation of prisoners could be, dramatically reducing reoffending rates.

The Youth Justice Board, which runs the Labour flagship Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme, said the re-offending rate was “very high” or in plain english 91% re-offended within two years!

What do you think the Labour government should spend our tax money on – ID cards, more Police or getting criminals rehabilitated?

One thought on “UK tops Endemic surveillance league

  1. Scam says:

    Call me radical, but how about investing in the people?

    By that, I mean building up a sense of belonging, national pride and society that seems to be so sadly lacking in this day and age.

    Is it only me or is our government doing a sterling job of depersonalising us, categorising and labelling us in an ever increasing number of insecure databases, designed to track our every move?

    The number of CCTV cameras we have here is utterly ridiculous. In a court of law you are innocent until proven guilty yet the everyday citizen cannot move without being under constant surveillance.

    Is that protection of our safety or control of our lives?

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