In London, you can rest assured that every step you take on the street, you are more than likely on at least one camera. The eye in the sky could potentially get even worse if a report, that was issued by the information commissioner Richard Thomas, holds any water. The report, “A Surveillance Society“, describes a world where everyone in UK is RFID chipped and being monitored 24/7.
He said in the report: “Two years ago I warned that we were in danger of sleepwalking into a surveillance society. Today I fear that we are in fact waking up to a surveillance society that is already all around us.”In 2016 Thomas predicts shoppers will be scanned as they enter stores and their clothes recognised through unique RFID tags embedded in them. This data will be matched with loyalty card data to affect the way they are treated as they do their shopping, with some given preferential treatment over others.
Hope that if this is in fact the face of the future that they have the sense to avoid the pitfalls of the Irish passports. Or maybe they would take the time to read the draft report from the DHS. This is not a definitive view but, at the rate of rights and freedoms being rremoved from the citizens of various countries, it could well be.
Tags: Big Brother, DHS, RFID, Surveillance, Richard Thomas, Irish Passports
