Sunday, November 05, 2006

Did you know ... ?

Britain has emerged as surveillance society number one, while Germany is the only EU country offering significant privacy protection, according to a study by civil liberties group Privacy International.

It estimates that there are now over four million cameras in Britain, one for every 14 residents, a 300 percent increase in just three years.

The average Briton is captured about 300 times a day on film ...

3 comments:

mareymercy said...

Yeah, but do they wiretap your phones? You know the US of A can't let anyone else be #1 at anything!!

Anil P said...

It was bound to happen someday.

Di Mackey said...

Lol, is that so twitches ... Bush was a sportsman, after all.

It's disappointing though. I thought Britain was a democracy.