Search: Look for:   Last 1 Month   Last 6 Months   All time
Home :: World

UK's `surveillance society' costing taxpayers 20 billion pounds: Report

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 ANI

London, July 7 (ANI): A TaxPayers' Alliance report has claimed that Britain's "surveillance society" is costing the national exchequer 20 billion pounds, or 800 pounds per household.

 

The amount includes 19 billion pounds for the planned ID card system and 500 million pounds for CCTV cameras.

 

The Telegraph quoted former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis, who is standing for by-elections this week, as saying that this statistic provided "further damning evidence of Big Brother's (Brown Government's) expensive tastes."

 

Describing it as a huge waste of taxpayers' money, Davis said that such policies undermine freedom and are utterly ineffective in fighting crime or terrorism.

 

Davis further said that: "It will undermine some of the fundamental principles of our justice, it will give the terrorists a propaganda coup and it may actually make the threat of terrorism worse."

 

Ministers, however, have denied that the ID card system will cost as much as the TaxPayers' Alliance report says. They also insist that CCTV has the backing of the public and have challenged opponents to say which cameras they would "pull down" in the name of civil liberties. (ANI)

 


LATEST IMAGES
Manohar Lal being presented with a memento
Manoj Tiwari BJP Relief meets the family members of late Ankit Sharma
Haryana CM Manohar Lal congratulate former Deputy PM Lal Krishna Advani on his 92nd birthday
King of Bhutan, the Bhutan Queen and Crown Prince meeting the PM Modi
PM Narendra Modi welcomes the King of Bhutan
Post comments:
Your Name (*) :
Your Email :
Your Phone :
Your Comment (*):
  Reload Image
 
 

Comments:


 

OTHER TOP STORIES


Excellent Hair Fall Treatment
Careers | Privacy Policy | Feedback | About Us | Contact Us | | Latest News
Copyright © 2015 NEWS TRACK India All rights reserved.