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Including CCTV, identity protection, privacy and any totalitarian attempts to control society through surveillance and control...

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30th October 2009 | Issue 697 - A LIBERAL HELPING? - The Guardian publish a police 'domestic extremists' spotter card and brew up a storm about police attempts to monitor protesters.

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13th July 2007 | Issue 596 - It's official – Holloway Road is the most spied-upon street in the most spied-upon country in Europe. The two-mile stretch of North London hosts 102 CCTV cameras and 7 speed cameras, each one a supposed deterrent to crime.

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23rd March 2007 | Issue 581

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4th March 2006 | Issue 534 - YOU'RE HAVING A L.A.R.R-F - Heard about the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill - possibly the biggest goosestep towards a totally authoritarian society the Blair oligarchy has yet dared to take.

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27th Jan 2006 | Issue 529 - MISTAKEN IDENTITY - “A national ID card for the UK is overly ambitious, extremely expensive and will not be a panacea against terrorism or fraud, although it will make a company like mine very happy.” - Roberto Tavano, biometrics specialist for Unisys.

21st Jan 2005 | Issue 481 - IT GO HOME - Rather than recruit more nurses and pay them a decent wage, or build a few more hospitals, the government in its infinite wisdom has decided to spend anywhere between £18-£31 billion over the next ten years on a new computer system for the Health Service.

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3rd Sept 2004 | Issue 466 - I.D.EAL CITIZEN

7th May 2004 | Issue 452 - BORN TO BE FILED - As the government publishes the Children’s Bill, which is supposed to protect children from abuse, but rather than putting more money into social services, it will create an Orwellian database of every child in the country (11 million people)...

18th July 2003 | Issue 415 - VISION CHIPS - RFIDs are tiny chips which can be embedded into almost anything. When a reading device is placed within five metres of them, they transmit their unique number to the device. Shops will use them instead of barcodes, conveniently allowing you to just push your trolley through the checkout - but there are other applications for the technology...

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5th July 2002 | Issue 363 - IDENTITY CRISIS - ID cards are back on the agenda – or as the government would like us to call them ‘Entitlement Cards’, which must mean the government and police are entitled to find out everything about you whenever they like.

14th June 2002 | Issue 359 - BUG EYED - This week England became Champions of the World. Not on the football pitch, but in the Nosey Parker Premier League thanks to plans to give a whole host of bureaucrats the power to spy on us. From NHS executives to your local council, the Department of Work and Pensions to the Department for Transport; from the Home Office to the Post Office all could be getting the same powers of surveillance as the police. This brilliant idea comes thanks to a proposed amendment to the Regulation of Investigator Powers (RIP) Act. If the order is approved by MPs next Tuesday and the Lords a week later, these organisations will be able to make telephone companies and internet service providers hand over detailed personal information on any of us - without a court order.