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'There is no longer any privacy' David Calder Not so long ago, the Information Commissioner warned that
we were "sleep-walking our way into a surveillance society".
But it's now clear he was more concerned about the amount of data held on each and every one of us which, if all brought together, would give the government an incredibly detailed view of our lives. It was brought home all too clearly when Alistair Darling stood up in the House of Commons last month and admitted the loss of those CDs by HM Revenue and Customs. You may have thought we had some protection from the Data Protection Act.
But Dr David Murakami Wood, a surveillance specialist from Newcastle University, believes it was out of date even before it came into force. "It's based on a 1970s conception of computing," he explained. "It came long before the networking of computers. You could now argue that how we exist in databases is as important as how we exist in the real world."
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