The House of Lords has published a report detailing the fact that the pervasiveness of CCTV is undermining the fundamental right to privacy.

The report, Surveillance: Citizens and the State, by the Lords’ constitution committee, says Britain leads the world in the use of CCTV, with an estimated 4m cameras, and in building a national DNA database, with more than 7% of the population already logged compared with 0.5% in the America.

The peers say privacy is an “essential prerequisite to the exercise of individual freedom” and the growing use of surveillance and data collection needs to be regulated by executive and legislative restraint at all times.

Finally, the aristocracy that is left in Britain are starting to speak up.  When they realize what is happening, it’s time for the rest of the British public to do so also.  Those who were already aware of the increasing limits on privacy should not be called kooks and conspiracy nuts.  This is real.  And it needs to be dealt with.