Surveillance in the UK is the Most Advanced and Intrusive in the World. The United States Has Taken a Lesson From the UK’s Model and Increased its Watchful Eye Capability.

American citizens need only look at surveillance in the UK to see where our country’s privacy is headed.

UK surveillance is by far the most intrusive and advanced on the global front. The United States is not too far behind.

Britain is now known as the CCTV capital of the world, with over 4.2 million cameras monitoring the population’s every move.

Much like the United States, Britain has also adopted stringent anti-terrorism laws that infringe on the civil liberties of the general public.

The UK government is inciting fear of terrorism into its people in order to erode basic civil liberties such as the right to privacy. Sound familiar?

America is just one step behind the UK in efforts to gain complete state regulation and control over its population, and it aspires to equally advanced levels of surveillance found in the UK.

It will just be a matter of time before our country has caught up to the UK surveillance state by means of constructing a DNA database, increasing CCTV surveillance, creating an easily accessible national medical record database and obtaining a super-database holding the records of every person in the country for data sharing amongst government officials.

The European Union’s construction of Galileo, a global navigation satellite system, will also give government surveillance an even greater edge with its accuracy being estimated at a meter’s range.

Surveillance in the UK is a Sign of Things to Come in the U.S.

Research in the UK has shown the average Briton is being recorded in excess of 3000 times a week.

They are recorded by means of telephone call, transaction, internet browsing or by CCTV camera as they stroll down the street.

Most of the recorded data is stored in databases for years or until it could be useful.

This data includes, but is not limited to, shopping habits, emails, whereabouts during the day, internet searches and travel.

The European Union’s current construction of Galileo will surely add to the momentum of surveillance in the UK, with its accuracy being promoted as vastly superior to that of the commonly used Global Positioning System (GPS) of the U.S.

Galileo has caused much agitation for the U.S. government who is now looking into constructing a rival satellite.

The technological competition is sure to produce immeasurable ways of monitoring civilians all over the world.

UK is Becoming a Police State

As American citizens, we should be concerned about the escalating level of surveillance in our country.

It did not take long for surveillance in the UK to get to where it is today.

The former MI5 spy chief has warned that the UK is well on its way to becoming a police state.

Dame Stella Rimington has accused ministers of restricting civil liberties and behaving more like terrorists in the way that they incite fear and distrust the people.

America and Britain have been accused by an international study by lawyers and judges of actively undermining the law under the guise of countering terrorism.

How much longer will we accept these feeble excuses?

As American citizens, we face a precarious future of state policing if we continue to accept governments scare tactics.