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Peers question British surveillance

By David Canton

That’s the title of my newspaper column this week. It talks about a House of Lords report that expresses concern over the U.K.?s extensive closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance network and its growing national DNA database, which contains information even about innocent people.

While the report does not go so far as to say that the U.K. has become an Orwellian state, it does say that ?the expansion in the use of surveillance represents one of the most significant changes in the life of the nation since the end of the Second World War.?

I can’t reporoduce the article here for copyright reasons, but it can be read on my blog, on the Canoe tech page, or on the London Free Press site.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on March 11, 2009 (boomark / email).