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- English
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About this book
The debate about our DNA database, the largest per capita in the world, has dominated headlines throughout the last few years. Britain has more CCTV cameras than any other country in the world, and even more are being installed - including in private homes, facing out into the street. With the Intercept Modernisation Programme, the current government plans to record details of every telephone call made and e-mail sent by people in the United Kingdom. A database of households, is set to be compiled for health and safety reasons, is planned by the NHS. The Independent Safeguarding Authority continues to plan a compulsory register of all those who regularly come into contact with children - perhaps a third of adults in the country. Stop-and-Search powers under the Terrorism Act are argued about as photographers are arrested for taking photographs of public buildings. Data chips in our bins monitor our domestic waste. Despite a temporary retreat on their compulsory status, identity cards (and, more importantly, the database behind them) remain with us. What is the future for civil liberties in modern Britain? Big Brother Watch brings together a collection of essays by experts in fields affected by the increasingly authoritarian nature of British culture - in a country so illiberal it's almost as if normal life is becoming unlawful.
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Table of contents
- About Big Brother Watch
- Contributor Biographies
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Human rights and the law
- They’ve got your number: the silent boom in mass surveillance
- Freedom is a one nation issue
- Powers of entry to private property
- Is the bully state on the run?
- Freedom and liberty under the coalition
- Immigration, asylum and civil liberties
- Inventing new crimes and suppressing free speech
- Stereotypes, shibboleths and civil rights
- A licence to interfere
- Freedom and the European Union
- Criminal evidence and civil liberties
- How UK internet regulation is killing business and stifling freedom
- A land of liberty?
- Google street view: a systematic intrusion on privacy
- Freedom is a strength
- If you want to roll back the ‘state’, the ‘state’ includes the EU
- Liberty lost, democracy denied: the dual attack on Britain’s tradition of freedom
- Does the Human Rights Act really protect our freedoms?
- Against the Equality Act
- Eternal vigilance can only be part of the strategy
- The Department of ‘No’
- Body scanners
- Libel & liberty: the case for reform of our defamation laws
- Privacy under the coalition
- The Case for a British Bill of Rights
- European privacy in the internet age
- Conclusion
- Notes