Those who have nothing to hide in their homes and vehicles have nothing to fear

So those full body scans they're rolling out to airports? Yeah they've got roving versions of those vans that can scan vehicles and homes on any street.

Can't wait for the 5-4 / 6-3 (KAGAN HATE TERRORISMISTS!) decision on this kind of thing not requiring a warrant.

thanks jonny

EDIT: Actually turns out the supreme court have already ruled this kind of thing is a search under the fourth amendment (thus requiring a warrant) from the comments:

The Supreme Court already ruled on this issue in KYLLO V. UNITED STATES. It ruled that “…the use of a thermal-imaging device aimed at a private home from a public street to detect relative amounts of heat within the home constitutes a “search” within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.” The ruling details may other relevant and obvious reasons this technology is illegal.

Read the ruling here: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-8508.ZO.html

Sadly, the agencies who invade our privacy will no doubt hide behind National Security to further erode what once made this nation free.

The commenter is of course right, this ruling will be ignored thanks to the War on Terror or what have you.

Trust no one, denounce everyone.

Sure that image gets broken out a lot by foreigners who like to deflect away from the erosion of their own civil liberties but in this case its hard to view this as anything but a portent of things to come.

The Association of Chief Police Officers have put out an advert that encourages you to denounce and report people for inoffensive actions that are not in any way illegal.

It is interesting given the article I linked yesterday that one of the warning signs is not using a credit card thus linking being poor to terrorism.

Listen here.

Computerised profiling halted, for now.

I mentioned a while ago about this project to monitor two predominantly Muslim areas of the UK with CCTV that tracked people movements. Well it seems thanks to the Guardian investigation it has been halted while a "full and in-depth consultation" takes place but both the Police and local government seem determined to bring the scheme online so the consultation is likely a delaying tactic so as to wait for public anger to subside and then bring it in.

My lord though, imagine British governmental agencies delaying something so as to maintain their current course!