This week’s Economist has an article about the new technologies for collecting personal information, and the dangers of abuse:
It used to be easy to tell whether you were in a free country or a dictatorship. In an old-time police state, the goons are everywhere, both in person and through a web of informers that penetrates [...]

Peter Oborne writes in the Daily Mail:
[The power of the state] poses an ever-growing threat to the liberty of British people, in many cases seizing on new technology to menace our freedom.
Today, the situation is so bad that we are in urgent need of a new Magna Carta – one that enshrines the freedom of [...]

Anna Pickard, writing on the Guardian web site, reviews the video for the Pet Shop Boys’ “Integral”:
On a grey London bridge, the camera focuses on a series of pixellated images on posters. The posters change quickly enough to create the illusion of motion. Like a flip book. Or a music video.
In the background, commuters hunch [...]

Ian Bell writes in the Sunday Herald about ID cards, databases, surveillance and the presumption of innocence:
I didn’t break the law last week. Like the greatest number of you, I didn’t break the law the week before, or the week before that. Once upon a time I played football flagrantly in places where football was [...]

The BBC web site reports:
The UK is in danger of becoming a “surveillance society ruled by the technology and the politics of fear”, the Liberal Democrats have warned.
Home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg said the government saw “no limits” to the use of technology for spying on people.
The party’s annual conference in Brighton voted to repeal [...]