Big Brother UK getting bigger... and bigger...

**Tribesman** · 10-03-2007, 06:38

Well, I guess this makes it worse because it kinda enshrines it into law. I mean, sure, everybody is aware that your phone calls aren't really yours, and they weren't private for many years now, but, up to now, you know, they needed a court order, they needed to jump through some hoops, and/or it wasn't even legal to do so. But now, it's out in the open - and I think that's the difference. And it is much worse, in my eyes, because now they can practice it on a larger scale and without worries about whistleblowers and the legislative giving them a hard time about it when they overstepped their bounds too much and made a booboo.

They had no worries about whistleblowers anyway , they changed that years ago under Thatcher when they had a small problem with somene blowing a whistle .

**InsaneApache** · 10-03-2007, 08:00

Clive Ponting?

**The Wizard** · 10-03-2007, 14:24

On that image: that's a picture taken in front of a bus stop, looks like, so it's probably real. I've also seen a similar one from DC private entity, also with obvious fascist undertones.

**naut** · 10-03-2007, 15:30

's. Kinda glad I don't live in the police state anymore.

**caravel** · 10-03-2007, 15:39

The poster is a London Transport one, CCTV was widely installed on public transport back in the 90's, primarily to crack down on vandalism. Despite this, vandalism is actually a bigger problem than ever.

It really has nothing whatsoever to do with the phone calls logging issue.

**The Wizard** · 10-04-2007, 17:40

No shiznat, buddy, but it just serves as a handy tool for illustrating some real dangerous tendencies prevalent amongst the world's democracies these days.