" We reject crude characterisations of our society as a surveillance society in which all collections and means of collecting information about citizens are networked and centralised in the service of the state. Yet the potential for surveillance of citizens in public spaces and private communications has increased to the extent that ours could be described as a surveillance society UNLESS TRUST IN THE GOVERNMENT'S INTENTIONS IN RELATION TO DATA AND TO DATA SHARING IS PRESERVED."
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Jump To Comment: 1 2The British Government has just issued this document justifying its need to pry into your privacy.
http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/cm74/7449...9.pdf
" We reject crude characterisations of our society as a surveillance society in which all collections and means of collecting information about citizens are networked and centralised in the service of the state. Yet the potential for surveillance of citizens in public spaces and private communications has increased to the extent that ours could be described as a surveillance society UNLESS TRUST IN THE GOVERNMENT'S INTENTIONS IN RELATION TO DATA AND TO DATA SHARING IS PRESERVED."
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