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HAVE YOUR SAY

ARE WE BECOMING A BIG BROTHER STATE?

Monday May 28,2007

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Council tax snoopers have secretly taken photographs of almost a million homes, it emerged last night.

Figures reveal that the tax spies have already taken nearly 1.3 million photos of more than 800,000 private homes across the country.

Information on tens of thousands more homes will soon be added to a growing Government database in order to make sure they pay the right amount of tax.

The Government last night insisted it was just a routine collection of information designed to make sure people were in the right band but do you think this is yet another sign that our privacy is under threat? Are we in danger of losing our civil liberties to a greedy Government desperate to rake in all the tax it can? Are we heading for a big brother state?

Have YOUR say.

ARE WE BECOMING A BIG BROTHER STATE?

31.05.07, 8:19pm

Under Tony Blair and New Labour WE ARE A BIG BROTHER STATE.

You cannot use a Credit / Debit card without your location being pinpointed at the time (irrespective of whether you are in Britain or abroad).

You cannot walk down the street without appearing on CCTV.

You cannot make a mobile phone call without your exact location being on record (date, place , time).

Your Home can now be entered by up to any number of 160 Jobsworths who have the right to take photographs in any room that they choose.

And in the Olden Days an Englishmans home was his Castle ( That is until Tony Blair got Elected and then he changed everything)

• Posted by: EmperorMing • Report Comment

ARE WE BECOMING A BIG BROTHER STATE?

30.05.07, 7:55pm

If you go on google earth you can look down into every back garden in Britain. If you open any local newspaper you can see pictures of hundeds of houses in estate agents adverts. When you go to work in the morning you will look at hundreds or thousands of houses. Anyone can walk down the road and take a picture of any house they like.
If I phone up the council to query my council tax band I will be delighted if they can pull up a photo on screen so they know what I am talking about.

• Posted by: feetontheground • Report Comment

BIG BROTHER

28.05.07, 7:20pm

No way! we are becoming a communist state have you not realized yet

• Posted by: syd • Report Comment

BIG BROTHER STATE

28.05.07, 6:02pm

If any council cretin wants to sneak around to the back of my premises to take clandestine photographs of my property I do not mind one bit. It is my Alsatian Max who will be angry and from him he must first get a safe conduct pass.

Assholes aren't they.

• Posted by: Robertz • Report Comment

BIG BROTHER STATE

28.05.07, 4:47pm

I live in a terraced street and have just replaced a very old and dilapidated front door with a new PVC one to improve my security and the look of my house, does this mean I will be up banded and/or have to pay more community tax. I can remember living in a rented run down house as a child when you could leave a front door open and no one would enter and steal anything even if you left money on the sideboard for the rent or insurance man, god how people and times have changed, if anything has got bigger its people ego and expectations.

• Posted by: Derk • Report Comment

HOW CAN WE BECOME WHAT WE ALREADY ARE!

28.05.07, 3:59pm

Civil servants are above the LAW, MP's are exempt from FOI Act, Data Protection is not enforced when civil servants are the criminals breaking the Law.

We are a big brother state where Data Protection, Freedom Of Information are myths only believed in by the most gullable in our society.

• Posted by: The_Way_I_See_It • Report Comment