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- Product code: 215355
- ISBN: 1905641443,
ISBN13: 9781905641444,
176 pages, hardback
Published by Harriman House in 2007
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Description of The Road to Southend Pier |
A chance encounter with a talking lamp-post got Ross Clark thinking: is there any escape from Britain's growing surveillance society? He set himself a challenge: could he get to Southend without Big Brother knowing where he had gone? In this entertaining and highly revealing account of his attempt to dodge Britain's 4.2 million CCTV cameras and other forms of surveillance, Ross Clark lays bare the astonishing amount of data which is kept on us by the state and by commercial organisations, and asks whom should we fear most: the government agencies who are spying on us - or the criminals who seem to prosper in the swirling fog of excessive data-collection.
Among his discoveries are:
- An information company in Nottingham seemed to know he has cherry trees in his garden.
- If he flies to New York, the FBI will keep a record of what he had for lunch.
- 2,700 people are wrongly recorded as criminals on Britain's Police National Computer.
- 70 Americans have been implanted with microchips to help identify them if they become lost and confused.
- British companies are routinely vetting potential employees by searching MySpace for evidence of drunken antics and sexual perversion.
- It will take 905 man-years to issue every British citizen with an ID card.
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Contents of The Road to Southend Pier |
1. The Talking Lamp-Post
2. My Big Day Out
3. Me and My Mug
4. A Brief History of Surveillance
5. Me and My Genes
6. Me and My Good Name
7. Me and My Secrets
8. Me and My ID
9. Me and My Pockets
10. Me and My Travels
11. Me and My Computer
12. Me and My Car
13. Me and My Home
14. Me and My Money
15. Me and My Shopping
16. Me and My Job
17. Me and My Health
18. Me and My Paranoia
19. Me and My Conclusions
Appendix
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About Ross Clark |
Ross Clark is a journalist who has written extensively for The Times, The Sunday Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday.
He is the author of 'How to Label a Goat" The Silly Rules and Regulations that are Strangling Britain', also published by Harriman House, and 'The Great Before', a satire on the anti-globalisation movement - www.greatbefore.com
As for his private life, he isn't giving anything away because he can't be sure the book won't fall into the hands of the narks at some nosey government agency.
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