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October 5, 2012 01:42 pm GMT
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Surveillance Cameras Turning UK into Big Brother State [VIDEO]
Because of the increasing use of surveillance cameras, modern day UK is turning into Orwell's 1984 UK, said the british first ever Surveillance Commissioner.
In an interview with the newspaper The Independent, Andrew Rennison said the country is quickly letting technology go too far, putting privacy and other civil rights in danger.
"The technology has overtaken our ability to regulate it," he said. "It is the Big Brother scenario playing out large. It's the ability to pick out your face in a crowd from a camera which is probably half a mile away."
With HD cameras "popping all over the place," Rennison said there will be a justifiable outcry…
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