UK clamps down on individual privacy

Under a new legislation tabled for the next session of parliament, security services will have access to social network site visits, as well as phone calls, and emails, British media reported.

The new scheme labeled as an unprecedented invasion of Briton’s individual privacy would have all phone calls, texts, tweets and computer keystrokes be monitored, kept on file and used as and when seen fit, according to the reports.

Senior Conservative MPs have condemned this massive escalation in intelligence gathering as nothing less than snooping.

The scheme comes as ‘Big Brother’ technology which monitors mobile phones remotely – without warning a citizen that this is happening – is already in use in many major British retail chains.

The technology, which raises serious questions about privacy, has quietly been in use in the UK for four years in several ‘major’ High Street malls and department stores, with little or no publicity.

Meanwhile, thanks to the widespread use of CCTV, Britain is already the most ‘watched’ society on Earth.
Unlike with CCTV, though, victims of ‘Footpaths’ scanning often get no warning they are being watched. The surveillance is not for their safety, either – it’s for pure commercial gain.

Fears that the UK would sleep-walk into a surveillance society have become a reality.

MOL/JR/HE

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