From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Ah - But Britain with their stem cell research will have a plethora of
artificial livers by then. All the neocons from the US will flock to
Britain for new organs while still denouncing stem cell research/cloning as
evil.


"Mark"  wrote in message
news:454967bb$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> "* Shoppers being scanned as they enter stores. This will be matched with
> loyalty card data to affect how they are handled, with big spenders given
> preferential treatment over others."
>
> I'm surprised they didn't mention the natural corollary to that, the
> matching of how many pub trips, now that you have to provide prints to
> have a pint, to determine where you fall on the liver transplant list, if
> they let you on it at all...
>
>
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:454965db$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>> http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article1948209.ece
>>
>> Britain has sleepwalked into becoming a surveillance society that
>> increasingly intrudes into our private lives and impacts on everyday
>> activities, the head of the information watchdog warns.
>>
>> New technology and "invisible" techniques are being used
to gather a
>> growing amount of information about UK citizens. The level of
>> surveillance will grow even further in the next 10 years, which could
>> result in a growing number of people being discriminated against and
>> excluded from society, says a report by the Information Commissioner,
>> Richard Thomas.
>>
>> ..
>>
>> Mr Thomas,who heads an independent body that promotes public access to
>> official information, calls for a debate on what level of surveillance is
>> acceptable.
>>
>> He said: "Two years ago I warned that we were in danger of sleepwalking
>> into a surveillance society. Today I fear that we are in fact waking up
>> to a surveillance society that is already all around us.
>>
>> ..
>>
>> Britain under surveillance
>>
>> * The national DNA database holds profiles on about 3.5 million people.
>>
>> * There are an estimated 4.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain: one for
>> every 14 people.
>>
>> * More than half of the UK population posseses a loyalty card issued by
>> the firm that operates the Nectar scheme.
>>
>> * Since 2002 there have been more than 8 million criminal records checks
>> for jobs, of which around 400,000 contained convictions or police
>> intelligence information.
>>
>> * There are plans to expand capacity to read vehicle number plates from
>> 35 million reads per day to 50 million by 2008.
>>
>> * Some 216 catalogue companies in the UK are signed up to the Abacus
>> data-sharing consortium, with information on 26 million individuals.
>>
>> * The database of fingerprints contains nearly 6 million sets of prints.
>>
>> * An individual can be captured on more than 300 cameras each day.
>>
>> * By the end of 2002 law enforcement bodies had made more than 400,000
>> requests for data from mobile network operators.
>>
>> * The number of motorists caught by speed cameras rose from 300,000 in
>> 1996 to over 2 million in 2004.
>>
>> * In the year to April 2005 some 631 adults and 5,751 juveniles were
>> electronically tagged.
>>
>>
>
>

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