In connection with the Total Surveillance Society thing, Adrian Ramsey commented on the White Rose version of this piece here with a link to this. It's the first four chapters of a book called The Transparent Society. Subtitle: "Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?" Quite so.

I've only skim-read chapter one, and mostly what it does is ram home the message that this stuff is here to stay. My friend Patrick Crozier (he repeated this at the blogger bash we both attended on Saturday night) often says that governments and computers don't ever work properly together, but I think that this is strictly temporary. When the government can buy stuff at Dixons along with the rest of us, the stuff works okay. Soon, surveillance kit will be in Dixons.