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Britain is becoming a “surveillance society” where people’s every moves are monitored, the information commission warned today. Richard Thomas said two years ago that the country was in danger of “sleepwalking” into a surveillance society, but today he warned such a society already existed. There are currently 4.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain, one for… Read more »
One of the pioneers of DNA has warned that the use of the technology in fighting crime has gone far beyond what it was designed for. Alec Jeffreys said there was “mission creep” in the role of Britain’s national DNA database which meant it was increasingly holding information on innocent people, rather than simply criminals,… Read more »
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