you cant go somewhere in england without being on a CCTV camera. thats how bad it is
Yes, British surveilance is crazy: Fuck those cynical sticker that say "smile you're on CCTV"! Has CCTV actually lowered crime rates?
In Germany we have a fairly strong data protection movement, which so far has been able to prevent some of the worst surveilance measures. However, secrect service agencies have access to almost all internet information anyways (even to private cameras, if they are connected to the internt) as Snowdon has shown. Luckily not much of it can be used in court right now.
I see a rise of surveilance technology and automatic policing in Europe, unless some serious measures are taken to reverse economic inequality. This has already happened in the US, where in the past decades the prison system has basicly replaced social welfare and public health care. There are 2.2 million Americans in prison/jail right now being closely watched for 24 hours (and they still manage to commit crimes!).
A credit score system and mass surveilance scares the shit out of me! What's fucked up, is that quite alot of young people seem to feel safe being closely controlled and even ask for more control and constant "optimization of their potential". There is still alot of talk about freedom, but I feel people don't even know what that is anymore. Many people seem seriously scared of not being technologically regualated or having a social framework for acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Sitting around, unwatched, bored and then consciously deciding on what to do for the afternoon is a luxery less and less people are able to experience.
Whatever, I am getting old.
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