Seems the brits are way ahead of us in this one. It always amazes me how the very country that invented civil liberties is so hell bent on abolishing them.
CCTV in Germany is (sofar) limited to busy downtown metro stations and some squares.
The constitutional court has recently made some quite interesting decisions on public surveilance which should at least slow down the increase.
Generally, regardless of country, sometimes I ask myself:
Who's actually in favor of all this? I've never seen anyone either in real life nor in any kind of internet discussion who actually favored data mining, surveilance and all that.
Yet these measures increase year by year, despite being opposed by practically every educated citizen in every nation in question.
Of course there are the "tabloid reading uneducated masses", but these people are mostly indifferent and if you bother to ask them they're mostly opposed as well, regardless of what the tabloids tell them.
Who's the driving force behind this? The industry? Older generation politicians who can't handle progress? Is it preparation for a totalitarian society? I doubt it since today's politicians can't think long term.
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