The UK has always had that surveillance state thing wrapped in a friendly "frontend". Cops can visit you in your hometown because they are concerned about your

The UK has always had that surveillance state thing wrapped in a friendly "frontend". Cops can visit you in your hometown because they are concerned about your posts or likes on social media, where such content doesn't have to be anything terribly offensive. And everyone ends up processed in their system. Reminds me a bit of Germany, except germans have more checks and balances, and many things like CCTV-everywhere of the UK, just wouldn't be legal there. In both countries, low-level bureaucrats have extensive access to information about individuals, as well as broad attributions on what they can do with it, unlike the much maligned US, where these powers are much more separated.