Big Brother Puts You In Danger
As Britain is turned into a Big Brother state, with more and more surveillance cameras, information databases, and the proposed ID cards. We have 1% of the world’s population, but 20% of it’s CCTV cameras. A report by the Royal Academy of Engineering painted a stark future:
“It is not entirely absurd to imagine that supermarkets’ loyalty card data might one day be used by the Government to identify people who ignored advice to eat healthily, or who drank too much, so that they could be given a lower priority for treatment by the NHS…
The individual citizen is in no position either to accept or reject surveillance. This heightens the sense that we may be developing a ‘Big Brother’ society.
This should be redressed by allowing citizens access to more information about exactly when, where and why they are being watched, so that they can raise objections to surveillance if it is deemed unnecessary or excessively intrusive…
The Government and corporations must recognise that they put at risk the trust of citizens and customers if they do not treat privacy issues seriously.” (Telegraph)
All of this information that they hold about us is not secure enough. No database is ever going to be secure enough to prevent someone determined enough from getting in. So by holding our information, even if they won’t use it, they put us in danger.
There is little need for such a Big Brother state that we are moving towards. Even without the security implications of holding all the data, it is a process of continual inroads into our civil liberties. Stop the Big Brother state!
The prize for best quote of the day has to go to the spokesman for the London Development Agency who said, on having a communications satellite, which will assist mobile and internet traffic, although it also possesses the potential to monitor road vehicles.
“It is not the case that it will be used to spy on people in their cars… It could be used for that purpose, but it could also be used for a ray gun to hold the world to ransom - and we are not planning to do that either.”
Obviously he’s been watching some James Bond movies recently!
Sources: The Telegraph, ThisIsLondon.co.uk, 24dash.com, Metro
This entry is filed under Uncategorised. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
This is a good story to highlight. These cameras obviously have their place, but enough is enough, people’s privacy should be respected.
I just got a data plan on my mobile. I pretty much do not need my computer anymore since I do so much with my mobile phone. The neatest thing is that I can even watch naughty movies:) It is pretty neat, it’s called Mobile TV. All I do is point my phone to sexoncell.com and they have adult mobile movies in different formats like 3gp movies, symbian, pda or whatever. If you have any other cool sites, please let me know! This one, though, even has a free daily mobile movie.