It has been mentioned Britain's love with extreme surveillance before (see this story
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23391081-details/George+Orwell%2C+Big+Brother+is+watching+your+house/article.do ), which turns every citizen into a would-be criminal. If you decide to spend your vacation in London, say, you'll find it next to impossible to miss the ubiquitous surveillance cameras, installed, as the story goes, to prevent crime (an almost unprovable and thus politically very useful assertion). And indeed the cameras are extremely useful to identify suspects in those very crimes they didn't deter in the first place.
But now, British police is going a step further: "Last week police chiefs issued fresh warnings over the potential dangers posed by people carrying cameras for surveillance purposes." (see this story
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Antiterror_police_defend_campaign_targeting_suspicious_behaviour_of_people_with_cameras_news_195594.html) So not only is everybody a possible suspect, in essence anybody carrying a camera is now a possible terrorist! And you really have to take in their Orwellian poster! http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/imageBank/p/police%20warning.jpg 
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too true i said as much in 1981
06.03.2008 14:05
I think I'm bring checked out,
Faceless people watching on a TV screen
Do you begin to sense it?
Just beneath the surface
Reflections of a window whilst walking down the street
Computers are abused,
School records are fed
Police are checking on what you said
The number of your car is
Fed into a box
Your journey's being checked, it's a paradox
Duplicate forms
And ID cards
Are next in line to disregard
Future generations are relying on us
It's a world we've made - Incubus
Future generations are relying on us
It's a world we've made - Incubus
Future generations are relying on us
Future generations are relying on us
Future generations are relying on us
It's a world we've made - Incubus
Future generations
Living on a knife edge,
Looking for the ground
Living on a knife edge,
Looking for the ground
Living on a knife edge,
Looking for the ground
dave frock of pinkwind