However, this has been justified by "public safety" in public spaces. Surely this wouldn't impose on private citizens in their private life? Well, a "Pub" sounds like it would be "public", right?
Note to The Guardian: youA prospective pub landlord says the police insistence on him installing CCTV cameras to film everyone entering his pub threatens his customers' civil liberties.
Nick Gibson says he has been in a "silent rage" since the police outlined conditions to his licence application, which also requires him to hand over any film of drinkers on request.
Seems people are noticing:
The row comes a week after a House of Lords report stated that the steady expansion of the "surveillance society" risked undermining fundamental freedoms including the right to privacy.Note to the Lords: you don't have any fundamental freedoms, other than those that your
Fortunately, we can expect a huge drop in crime due to all the cameras. Oh, wait.
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This also slipped under a lot of people's radars. Outside of the one plan to restrict certain people on terror watchlists in and out of the country country, there was also a proposal to restrict citizens from traveling out of the country on vacation, ostensibly to "save fuel". Hand us your guns, smile for the camera, and, by the way, you can't leave.
That's not a once proud nation, that's a penal colony.
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