Britain under the Nazis? No. Britain under New Labour! A slideshow of stills… all from London during 2009. No narrative needed. But a word or two of explanation… The heavy-handedness and increasing abuses of the authority of their office by the police is nowhere more in evidence than in the suppression of dissent and legitimate [...]
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, [...]
Originally published at Tilting at Windmills 16 February 2009 This is not the piece I wanted to write! I wanted to write something short and sharp. This piece is neither of those. I wanted to write a simple piece about the new powers the police have today been given. This piece isn’t that either. For [...]
