Britain is focus on becoming a “Surveillance Society”. Information is collected on citizens and entered on various data bases. Unfortunately, Britain is not efficient in safeguarding those data. In another breach of security, this time a data base of criminals cannot be found:
“The British government says a computer memory stick with information [...]
George Orwell imagined a government that gathered every piece of available information of its citizens. There was constant surveillance, with control of the society as an end goal. George Orwell was an imaginative futurist and his view of a totalitarian government was presented in his novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four”.
It seems that Britain [...]
Google’s Street View has passed the scrutiny of the UK privacy watchdog. The photo mapping of street scenes in the UK has been assessed and ruled to comply with British privacy laws:
“…the Information Commissioner said it was “satisfied” that Google had put in place safeguards to avoid risking anyone’s privacy or safety.”
link: Google [...]
The United Kingdom has been called the ‘Surveillance Society’. Citizens’ activities are monitored and kept in various data bases. It seems that many people in the UK will find that their internet service provider (ISP) has joined the surveillance movement:
“Six of the UK’s biggest net providers have agreed a plan with the music [...]
Britain may be on the verge of taking a further step into the ‘Surveillance Society’. Already Britain is awash with surveillance cameras and there is the beginnings of a DNA data base. Now there is consideration of a data base for all telephone calls and emails. For the sake of security, it [...]
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