> Are you sure about 4 million surveillance cameras?

Well, I took at face value what the program said, and it seems to
be true

"Fears that the UK would "sleep-walk into a surveillance society"
have become a reality, the government's information commissioner
has said"

" Britain is 'surveillance society' " 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6108496.stm

"Richard Thomas, who said he raised concerns two years ago, spoke
after research found people's actions were increasingly being monitored. 
Researchers highlight "dataveillance", the use of credit card, mobile phone
and loyalty card information, and CCTV. 

Monitoring of work rates, travel and telecommunications is also rising. 

There are up to 4.2m CCTV cameras in Britain - about one for every
14 people

But surveillance ranges from US security agencies monitoring
telecommunications traffic passing through Britain, to key stroke
information used to gauge work rates and GPS information tracking
company vehicles, the Report on the Surveillance Society says"

Euw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-circuit_television

"Surveillance of the public using CCTV is particularly common in
the UK, where there are reportedly more cameras per person than
in any other country in the world. There and elsewhere, its increasing
use has triggered a debate about security versus privacy"

I think people are generally too non-conformist for things to ever get
to a 1984 / THX-1138 / Logan's Run situation, but if you marry a
totalitarian state (and there are plenty of those around) with advanced
technology it wouldn't take much to get a society under the thumb,
and increasingly so thereafter

I've heard it said that a Londoner may appear on 300 cameras a day

Joe

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