An amazing article from guardian.co.uk about internet and the surveillance society.

Shadbolt says the risks of data spillage are greater than we’re led to believe: ‘”If you keep within the law, and the government keeps within the law, and its employees keep within the law, and the computer holding the database doesn’t screw up, and the system is carefully designed according to well-understood software engineering principles and maintained properly, and the government doesn’t scrimp on the outlay and all the data are entered carefully and the police are adequately trained to use the system and the system isn’t hacked into, and your identity isn’t stolen, and the local hardware functions, well, you have nothing to fear.”

Read this article in guardian.co.uk : Our surveillance society goes online