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Mike Freeman.

We already top the league for the so-called 'free' world in electronic surveillance, they won't be happy until we all have tracker chips inside us, and probably won't be happy then.

Still, if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear, right?

1. China
2. North Korea
3. Belarus
4. Russia
5. United Kingdom: England & Wales
6. United States of America
7. Singapore
8. Israel
9. France
10.Germany
11.Malaysia
12.Ireland
13.United Kingdom: Scotland
14.Netherlands
15.South Korea
16.Ukraine
17.Belgium
18.Australia
19.Japan
20.New Zealand

Some 'expert' aiming to justify his 'expert' status by proposing something that is impractical/ unworkable.

Impossible - there are not enough people to 'track' all interaction.
They are trying though and I have some small understanding of what happens in that place although I won't say how or why. Suffice it to say that I'm afraid that we no longer live in a free country and haven't for some time.

Whenever I hear a 'we've got to up surveillance on the public to save lives' assertion from those who want to do the spying, I always have to question their appreciation of risk. Deaths from terrorism in this country over the past 20 years dont come near the number of deaths PER YEAR from not having, for instance, a strictly enforced universal 20 mph speed limit, or those that are killed each year in domestic accidents, or the 30000 smokers who will die between now and this time in 2010. When the threat was mutual assured destruction from nuclear war with the Warsaw Pact, we seemed to manage without the state knowing our every move, action and coming soon, thought. Research is being carried out to investigate the reaction of the brain to various verbal stimuli, and known thoughts, such that it will not be too far fetched to read ones mind. Obviously New Labour would dress this up a s a way of providing front line public services more efficiently. 'We know what you want before you tell us.'