Warning over 'surveillance state'

[jonren]

"The government said CCTV and DNA were "essential crime fighting tools".

'Orwellian'

But surveillance and data collection must be proportionate, it added.

Civil liberties campaigners have warned about the risks of a "surveillance society" in which the state acquires ever-greater powers to track people's movements and retain personal data.

Controversial government plans for a database to store details of people's phone calls and e-mails were put on hold late last year after they were branded "Orwellian". "


news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7872425.stm

[Scooby Do]

Possibly even worse is this.


news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7872026.stm

[Rude Eric]

what a load f rubbish. If you have nothing to hice you have noting to fear.