New incarnation of Echelon in the European Union is a huge lurch forward in the creation of the prison planet based on social theorist Jeremy Bentham’s 18th century concept of keeping slaves oppressed.

The European Union is developing a 21st century panopticon, a beast surveillance system that critics describe as “Orwellian,” “sinister,” and “positively chilling,” that [...]

Returning to Britain from a summer holiday abroad, you begin to notice things that perhaps escaped your attention before — the huge number of CCTV cameras that infest our public spaces and, much less obviously, the atmosphere of watchfulness and control that has now become a way of life.
 

 
This is the regime that 12 years [...]

These are challenging times and we need to stay calm and think things through — not just panic and react. Fear, panic and emotional reaction got us into this mess and it is certainly not going to get us out of it.
We also need to realise — here, now — that we have long [...]

Most of us are aware that our governments monitor nearly every form of electronic communication. We are also aware of private companies doing the same. This strikes most of us as slightly troubling, but very few of us say or do much about it.
There are two primary reasons for this:

We really don’t see [...]