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09-08-2009, 11:50 PM
Daily Mail: One in 78 adults comes under state surveilance (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205419/March-state-spies-One-78-adults-came-state-sanctioned-surveillance-year.html)
Britain's extraordinary march towards a surveillance state is revealed today by shock new figures. They show that one request is made every minute for officials to spy on someone's phone records or email accounts. The number of Big Brother snooping missions by police, town halls and other public bodies has soared by 44 per cent in two years.
Last year there were 504,073 new cases - an average of 1,381 a day. It is the equivalent of one adult in 78 coming under state-sanctioned surveillance. The snoopers are using a law originally aimed at terror suspects. But their targets include people suspected of storing petrol without a licence and bringing a dog into the country without quarantining it.
Liberal Democrat spokesman Chris Huhne said last night: 'It cannot be a justified response to the problems we face in this country that the state is spying on half a million people a year. 'The Government forgets that George Orwell's 1984 was a warning, not a blueprint. We are still a long way from living under the Stasi - but it beggars belief that is necessary to spy on one in every 78 adults.' The requests to intercept email and telephone records were made under the hugely controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
I think this country over the past decade or so has became a mirror image, if not worse than the former Soviet Union was when it comes down to state surveilance and dictators such as Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin would of used this level of surveillance, had they of had it at their disposal at that time.
I suppose though its Labour and what did people expect when they voted for them back in 1997, 2001 and 2005. They have turned the country into a state where the government does not trust its own people which is not democracy at all.
What is your opinion on a big brother state?
Britain's extraordinary march towards a surveillance state is revealed today by shock new figures. They show that one request is made every minute for officials to spy on someone's phone records or email accounts. The number of Big Brother snooping missions by police, town halls and other public bodies has soared by 44 per cent in two years.
Last year there were 504,073 new cases - an average of 1,381 a day. It is the equivalent of one adult in 78 coming under state-sanctioned surveillance. The snoopers are using a law originally aimed at terror suspects. But their targets include people suspected of storing petrol without a licence and bringing a dog into the country without quarantining it.
Liberal Democrat spokesman Chris Huhne said last night: 'It cannot be a justified response to the problems we face in this country that the state is spying on half a million people a year. 'The Government forgets that George Orwell's 1984 was a warning, not a blueprint. We are still a long way from living under the Stasi - but it beggars belief that is necessary to spy on one in every 78 adults.' The requests to intercept email and telephone records were made under the hugely controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
I think this country over the past decade or so has became a mirror image, if not worse than the former Soviet Union was when it comes down to state surveilance and dictators such as Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin would of used this level of surveillance, had they of had it at their disposal at that time.
I suppose though its Labour and what did people expect when they voted for them back in 1997, 2001 and 2005. They have turned the country into a state where the government does not trust its own people which is not democracy at all.
What is your opinion on a big brother state?