From the BBC Radio 4 iPM programme… Surveillance fears for the UK Computer security veteran Phil Zimmermann warns about the seductive nature of technology. The UK is risking sliding unwittingly into a police state because of the growing use of surveillance technology, says security guru Phil Zimmermann. “When you live in that society and it [...]
… that the State seeks to encroach upon our private lives and condition us into accepting the “surveillance society”. See this blogpost… Let’s all spy on our neighbours shall we? Then we come on to the other aspect of those advertisecons… the fact that they’re encouraging us to snoop on people! This is even nastier, [...]
How often have we heard that sentence, or words to that effect, used to justify the proliferation of CCTV, the proposed introduction of ID cards, and other encroachments on our freedoms and privacy? Well, basically its just not true. And its certainly not true in the case of State- or State agency-administered centralised databases. When [...]
