Your article (It is time for privacy debates to grow up, governmentinsider.computing.co.uk) apparently acknowledges that people are entitled to privacy but would rather we didn't make too much of a fuss about it.

It might be less disingenuous to call the real threat of Big Brother hysterical if the government hadn't systematically avoided safeguards against it, wasn't dismantling the Data Protection Act, wasn't constantly being deceitful about the supposed benefits and real threats, was prepared to debate the issue in public, and wasn't building unnecessary and highly abusable databases for our medical files and children.

If we want safeguards against mass surveillance, we can demand them, and then implement them in law.

Dave Gould