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Originally Posted by Maggy J
Missed the point entirely as usual..
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No, I think Gary has made a very good point. Full body scanners would have been absolutely unthinkable only 10 years ago (even if the technology had been available), but we have become the most spied-on country in Europe and the operators of our various CCTV systems have been playing a very canny PR game with us, releasing images of shocking criminality to news providers, and images of hilarious stupidity to ITV, in order to make us think that cameras are there for our safety and our entertainment and therefore beyond reproach.
The issue
now may be child porn, but it has only been allowed to get this far because we've casually allowed our freedom to carry on our private business without 5 million TV viewers watching us, to be comprehensively eroded.