text: government spying on own people - see notes !!!? if the state and bussnesses of the uk are spying on there own people - is this against cival law - made after the fist or second world war where only americans could spy on the brittish and then pass info to the brittish and vise versa - just asking  as i know that it invades privacy law's or on the fring of it - what are your view's ? i also have nothing to hide, but is that really the point? what are they doing with all the information that their collecting? ok i agree that cctv is necessary, it does catch criminals. without it there would be a higher rate of unsolved crime in this country. but consider this... all the info that is held about u is shared between companies and the government,  what u spend on your credit card and where, your health, your whereabouts, your criminal record, where u go on holiday, how much u earn. and apparently the new censous is going to get even more personal. they wanna know who ur shagging, how often are u at home etc why? and what conclusions about us are drawing from all this info ... mistakes are gonna be made and peolpe are going to be wrongly accused based on assumptions drawn from incorrect or incomplete data that's supposed to be privat. this gov. finds it hard to wipe its own arse how the hell is gonna stop all this info getting into the wrong hands?  i have nothing to hide, but why should my life be exposed without my knowledge or consent to people i know nothing about in return and who definatly do not have my best interests at heart?