They Watch and Listen to Us, As We Blithely Give Our Liberty Away

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The report points out that not only government departments the Foreign Office, Home Office, Scotland's First Minister - enj oy the right to sno op, but so do bodies such as HM Revenue and Customs, the intelligence agencies, all 52 police forces, and even the fire service. In its latest annual survey, the global human rights group singles out Britain for criticism over its identity cards scheme and its lack of government accountability, and notes that it accounts for nearly a quarter of all the world's surveillance cameras.

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They Watch and Listen to Us, As We Blithely Give Our Liberty Away

One of Gordon Brown's first moves on taking power was to shed much of the rhetoric on crime employed by his predecessor. Gone was talk of a war on terror and a society in breakdown. Was this change merely prese...

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