Big Brother is watching .....

Once upon a time the idea of the surveillance state seemed like science fiction, an exaggerated idea that one read in scary novels about the future.

Steve Connor writes: "Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records for at least two years.

Using a network of cameras that can automatically read every passing number plate, the plan is to build a huge database of vehicle movements so that the police and security services can analyze any journey a driver has made over several years.

The network will incorporate thousands of existing CCTV cameras which are being converted to read number plates automatically night and day to provide 24/7 coverage of all motor ways and main roads, as well as towns, cities, ports and petrol-stations."

Well they tell us driving is a privilege not a right, so how can one have a right to privacy when accessing the state's roads. Do away with that quaint notion that the state is a republic, which if I remember my Latin meant "the people's thing." Read the full article.