Big Brother is watching!

[Mel Asher]

Coming as I do from a country where there are more security cameras per square mile than anywhere else,( something which is just tolerated, I reckon ), I find this state-control proposal really scary. It appears to have no safeguards built in to protect the authorities from abusing the privacy of ordinary law-abiding citizens. Worst of all, it abnegates responsibility until well after the abuse may have taken place. How handy to track down tax evasion, harmless ( and legal ) perversion activities and to provide a source of revenue for their departments by selling on to Divorce Lawyers and / or other commerciallly interested parties !

I think the who idea stinks. It should only be considered after a stringent and transparent study by a cross-party Commission.

Of course we all know that terrorist groups will hide behind any civil rights they can find, but that is no argument for removing the average citizen's existing rights - ' in their own interests ' ! !