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The Road to Southend Pier - One Man's Struggle Against the Surveillance Society (Hardcover)
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The Road to Southend Pier - One Man's Struggle Against the Surveillance Society (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 2 840
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A chance encounter with a talking lamp-post got Ross Clark
thinking: is there any escape from Britain's growing surveillance
society? He set himself a challenge: could he get to Southend
without Big Brother knowing where he had gone? In this entertaining
and highly revealing account of his attempt to dodge Britain's 4.2
million CCTV cameras and other forms of surveillance, Ross Clark
lays bare the astonishing amount of data which is kept on us by the
state and by commercial organisations, and asks whom should we fear
most: the government agencies who are spying on us - or the
criminals who seem to prosper in the swirling fog of excessive
data-collection.Among his discoveries are: an information company
in Nottingham seemed to know he has cherry trees in his garden; if
he flies to New York, the FBI will keep a record of what he had for
lunch; 2,700 people are wrongly recorded as criminals on Britain's
Police National Computer; 70 Americans have been implanted with
microchips to help identify them if they become lost and confused;
British companies are routinely vetting potential employees by
searching MySpace for evidence of drunken antics and sexual
perversion; and it will take 905 man-years to issue every British
citizen with an ID card.
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