Interesting that this seems to happen in UK - exactly where this idea came from. It's almost like some politicians read about it a while back and thought "hey,

Interesting that this seems to happen in UK - exactly where this idea came from. It's almost like some politicians read about it a while back and thought "hey, that would actually be pretty nice, if we could do that to the population". And then went on and pushed for CCTV cameras, and more powers for GCHQ. Same with US and the 1984 book, I guess.