UK: waltzing into 1984

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1984 - Big BrotherIt’s good to know that history repeats itself.

The UK is now the prime example.

From the UKDailyMail.com:

Put CCTV in EVERY home: Householders should help us trap burglars, says Scotland Yard chief

by Chris Greenwood

 

  • Families should install their own cameras to help catch burglars, he said
  • The Met chief said Britain needed more cameras to help fight crime

 

But privacy campaigners condemned the Metropolitan Police Commissioner’s suggestion.

‘The proposals on increasing the amount of privately owned CCTV cameras are quite frankly Orwellian and risk turning members of the public into an extension of the police,’ said Renate Samson of Big Brother Watch.

‘Private CCTV is completely unregulated. Recommending greater use of CCTV to gather more images of people’s faces – often innocent people’s faces – undermines the security of each and every one of us.’

She pointed out that a House of Commons committee had on Saturday released a report on the problems with facial recognition.

“Orwellian?”

Now there’s a foreign pot calling the kettle “1984.”

BZ

 

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6 thoughts on “UK: waltzing into 1984”

    • Oooo, sex taxing. Don’t send that idea to the UK; they’ll love it too much. However, it is quite clear that heterosexuals should be taxed for their clear bias.

      BZ

  2. Spying on the private sector has probably NEVER been easier. Smartphones, computers and even smart TVs all have built-in cameras and microphones. Even in the days of flip phones, stories first emerged of embedded programs that could use GPS tracking as well as covertly opening the device’s camera and microphone. In fact, an employer I once worked for issued “free cell phones” to all employees. I found out later that they liked to track where everyone went while on AND off the job….REAL TIME! I really wanted to toss the thing onto a freight train headed to the Canadian Rockies…THAT would have been fun to know they were wondering why I was thousands of miles away from my desk.

    Of course, in this age of social media and “selfies” everyone does the dirty work FOR big brother. It is a truly narcissistic age where people seem addicted to taking pictures of themselves and posting them on social media. What they often do not realize is how much collateral information can be derived from those self images. Backgrounds give a sampling of what the inside of their homes look like, what pets they have, how secure the premises may be, what tattoos and birthmarks they have, what kind of clothing they wear….on and on. It almost gets difficult to be disturbed by “Big Brother” being intrusive when so many people regularly post these pictures along with narratives of their daily routines and activities.

    Let’s face it. Privacy is dead. Social Media and selfies stabbed it and Big Brother twisted the knife.

    • I’m afraid you may be correct, killed by ANYthing digital. The digital world may have been or will be partly responsible for the downfall of the individual. Certainly, today’s Millennials couldn’t care less about their loss of privacy, since they grew up without it. Every poop, every fart, every step, every meal has been thoroughly documented across the internet.

      BZ

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