Home Office to review UK's surveillance powers | OUT-LAW.COM
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(From Out-Law's article)
The UK is not a surveillance society as some have claimed, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has said. Smith conceded, though, that surveillance powers needed to be reviewed to cut back on excessive use.
The Information Commissioner and others have claimed that the unusually intensive use of closed circuit television cameras in the UK and the creation of children's, DNA and health databases have turned the UK into a surveillance society.
Speaking this week to a trade association, Smith rejected the charge.
"Are we really a nation under CCTV? Do we, today, live in what critics call a surveillance society?" she said. "I don’t believe so, not for one moment."
Seems to me that ZaNuLabour Government are doing a bit of trick-cycling here by appearing to be conciliatory to the legitimate concerns regarding pervasive use of surveillance equipment and 'back-peddling' whilst ensuring that the the entire circus show, complete with clown's, goes on.
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