How Britain Exported Next-Generation Surveillance

Medium, 2014: "Thousands of cameras, millions of photographs, terabytes of data. You’re tracked, wherever you go... BRITAIN IS ONE OF THE MOST surveilled countries in the world. Studies put the number of operational CCTV cameras at between two and four million, for a population of 60 million people. The country’s national DNA database holds records on six million people. Telecoms companies are mandated to store logs of all mobile-phone calls and text messages for 12 months, and to make the data available to government at all levels.

Medium, 2014: "Thousands of cameras, millions of photographs, terabytes of data. You’re tracked, wherever you go... BRITAIN IS ONE OF THE MOST surveilled countries in the world. Studies put the number of operational CCTV cameras at between two and four million, for a population of 60 million people. The country’s national DNA database holds records on six million people. Telecoms companies are mandated to store logs of all mobile-phone calls and text messages for 12 months, and to make the data available to government at all levels.