The United Kingdom is leading the world into a brand new surveillance society where every single move an individual makes will be tracked.

While England should be applauded for trying to curb alcohol related violence, fingerprinting pub-goers isn’t the answer. You cannot use fingerprinting as a deterrence because people will simply stop visiting pubs and drink at home, moving the violence elsewhere.

What ever happened to stopping serving those who are clearly intoxicated before they become violent drunks? Why is there not more outrage over this? That’s right. Britain seems to enjoy being a model nanny state where its citizens don’t have to make any decisions for themselves. Hopefully, this rollout to ten pubs is as far as this ever goes. Realistically, it wouldn’t surprise me to see this go nationwide.

Britain also has become the first nation to have such widespread use of surveillance cameras. CCTV now has one camera for every 14 people, 4.2 million in all. The Surveillance Studies Network released the report [pdf] .

It predicts that, by 2016, shoppers could be scanned as they enter stores, schools could bring in cards allowing parents to monitor what their children eat, and jobs may be refused to applicants who are seen as a health risk.

The report’s co-writer Dr David Murakami-Wood told BBC News that, compared to other industrialised Western states, the UK was “the most surveilled country”.

“We really do have a society which is premised both on state secrecy and the state not giving up its supposed right to keep information under control while, at the same time, wanting to know as much as it can about us.”

Privacy International now states that Britain is the worst performing Western democracy in protecting individual privacy rights and in the bottom five in the world.

Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner has warned that “There are dangers to our privacy, our autonomy, the more the information is converged together.”

He fears that there will not be full accountability among humans and, instead, computers will be allowed to make all the decisions on the future. Thomas is also afraid that Britain is starting to look like many of the countries of Eastern Europe during their Communist regimes.

Every time someone uses a credit card or loyalty card, or goes online for surfing, searching or purchasing, they are being tracked. Their information is collected and stored. This information is increasingly being considered to be converged into a database that will include all of the surveillance information that has been tracked on them.

The NHS wants to put all British citizens medical records into a single database. The UK government wants to monitor every car in the country, create a database for all children in a local town hall, require biometric passports and force people to fill out even more intrusive census data.

Everything you do is being tracked under the guise of the war on terror. You are being watched, regardless of whether you have done anything wrong. How long before you are suspected of some crime because of a place you like to shop is harboring real criminals? It’s not conspiracy theory anymore. It’s already here and no one in Britain seems to care.

Still, with all these extra security measures, Britain cannot control the people illegally flowing into its country. The increased surveillance will only create a bigger mess than what is already there. More surveillance does not work. What the UK has done in regards to all this “security” has already gone too far. It’s time for British citizens to step up and say, “no more,” or else the UK will continue unabated down this path.

Right, I’m off now to see how fast George Orwell is spinning in his grave.