Surveillance society

"Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life, according to Britain's most senior police forensics expert."

This is an extract from this Guardian article that also contains this line "One teaching union warned that it was a step towards a 'police state'."


I know that the parallels between George Orwell's 1984 and modern day Britain are often commented upon but I believe they cannot be overstated, we are moving rather quickly to become a surveillance society.