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I live in London. My wife being Spanish I get to travel to Spain a lot, at times I stay in Spain for a few weeks. I'd always notice a certain level of relief w
by mavdi 12y ago
I live in London. My wife being Spanish I get to travel to Spain a lot, at times I stay in Spain for a few weeks.
I'd always notice a certain level of relief whenever I'd set foot in Spain. Like a great weight was being lifted off my shoulders. And then one day I realised what it was... I don't want to sound too doomy but it was the fact that one is constantly under watch in a place like the UK.
On average, you're caught 300 times on camera every day. All my messages and emails go through GCHQ proxies, if anything is left unwatched NSA will make sure it's all on record. HMRC knows every little details of financial information. All my Amazon purchases, my online grocery orders, the games I play on my console, damn I'm not sure Kinect is not somehow recording all the conversations in my house in some server.
The point is, for me the dystopian future I'd always worry about is here. It's creeping into every aspect of my life and already taking away any calm in life I'm left with.