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Big Brother Britain
Two versions of Britain's surveillance society from different ends of the political spectrum. In the Guardian, Steve Boggan writes of a "chilling assault on our privacy", warning that Britons risk being tracked from birth to death. Boggan is concerned with the threat to civil liberties posed by government snooping.
Over in the Telegraph, Leo McKinstry complains that "The machinery of the state is taking on ever larger powers of intrusion into our lives, bullying, lecturing, taxing and watching." The state, he argues, is paying more attention to the minutae of our lives because it wants to change our behaviour. Both are worth reading.
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