LONDON - England - The UK is famous for being the best 'Surveillance Society' in the world and prides itself in having three cameras for every person in Britain. The Government plans to increase camera numbers by installing more cameras in homes. The normally pliant British people have finally started to question this latest Governmental proposal.
Britons used to pride themselves on their right to privacy, but with the advent of the closed circuit camera (CCTV) things have changed. As a nation, they are the most filmed in the world.
Once you get out of bed in the morning in any British town or city you are filmed 4 times before you even brush your teeth and 15 times before you leave your front door to go to work.
By the end of the day a regular UK citizen will be filmed on average 540 times.
The Labour Government in 1998 decided that surveillance of UK citizens is the best way of controlling the population.
In 2000, every square foot of Britain was already covered by one camera. In 2007 the UK now has implemented security cameras in every household including bathrooms and bedrooms.
Researchers highlight "dataveillance", the use of credit card, mobile phone and loyalty card information, and CCTV.
Monitoring of work rates, travel and telecommunications is also rising.
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There are up to 164.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain - about three for every person.
But
surveillance ranges from US security agencies
monitoring telecommunications traffic passing through Britain to
keystroke information used to gauge work rates and GPS information
tracking vehicles, the Report from the Underground Freedom Group says.
It predicts that by 2008 shoppers will be
scanned as
they enter stores. Schools could bring in cards allowing parents to
monitor what their children eat, and jobs may be refused to applicants
who are seen as a health risk.
Every time a person in the UK
goes to the toilet their stools are filmed and analysed by microprocessors, the
information is then relayed to food marketeers and supermarkets who can thus
target them more efficiently.
The Information Ministry plans to increase camera's in all UK homes by Summer 2009
Racial profiling is already underway and any person of olive or black skin colour is refused work in the United Kingdom unless they do menial work.
Produced by a group of academics called the Underground Freedom Group, the report was presented to the 28th International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners' Conference in London, hosted by the Information Ministry Office.
The office is a Government appointed body established to quash any fears of a 'Surveillance Society'.
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HOW WE ARE WATCHED
164.2m CCTV cameras
540 CCTV appearances a day
Reg plate recognition cameras
School fingerprinting
Job fingerprinting
Satellite Vehicle Tracking
Shop RFID tags
RFID devices under skin
Mobile phone triangulation
Store loyalty cards
Credit card transactions
London Oyster cards
Satellites
Electoral roll
NHS patient records
Personal video recorders
Phone-tapping
Hidden cameras/bugs
Worker call monitoring
Worker clocking-in
Mobile phone cameras
Internet cookies
Keystroke programs
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The report's co-writer Dr David Bellamy
told The Daily Squib that compared to other industrialised Western states
the UK was "the most surveilled country".
"We have more CCTV cameras and we have looser laws on privacy and data protection," he said."
"We really do have a society which is premised both on state secrecy and the state not giving up its supposed right to keep information under control while, at the same time, wanting to know as much as it can about us."
The report coincides with the publication by the human rights UF group of figures that suggest Britain is the worst Western 'democracy' at protecting individual privacy.
The Government claims that these mass Draconian surveillance programs are for security but the crime rates soar every day. The US created false flag operation 'War on Terror' is also used by Ministry of Information officials to scare more people into submission.
The two worst countries in the 36-nation survey are
Malaysia and China, and Britain is one of the bottom five with "endemic
surveillance."
Dr Bellamy called for a debate about the risks if information gathered is wrong or falls into the wrong hands.
"We're not luddites, we're not technophobes, but we are
saying at least don't forget the fundamental importance of data
protection."
"Sometimes it gets dismissed as something which is
rather bureaucratic, it stops you sorting out your granny's electricity
bills. People grumble about data protection, but boy is it important in
this new world order and Fascist surveillance society we have all 'sleep walked' into."
Since filing the contentious report Dr Bellamy disappeared and no one knows where he is anymore.
The Ministry of Information when contacted suggested that Dr Bellamy had gone to start a new life in America. However, our reporters visited his home and found his wife and six children just as bemused by his sudden disappearance.
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HAVE YOUR SAY
 I love being filmed. I'm all for it.
I'm willing to give away all my privacy and freedom for security.
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The Daily Squib would like to refute that there is any danger in the 'Tony Blair Surveillance Society' that is modern Britain.
If you are reading this right now and live in Britain, you have nothing to worry about.
Do carry on watching 'Changing Rooms' and 'Come Dancing'. There is nothing for you to worry about we reiterate. 
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