2010 Being Watched Survey: How far has Government surveillance of your life gone? Do you know?

1. Our World Our Say Survey into the surveillance state

This is a survey into the deterioration in civil liberties in the UK. Quite a lot has changed since the election and we will be updating the survey soon.

1. e-Borders.Monitoring and recording your foreign travel on a giant database: Are you aware of the e-Borders scheme? If no go straight to question 4.

e-Borders.Monitoring and recording your foreign travel on a giant database: Are you aware of the e-Borders scheme? If no go straight to question 4. Yes

2. Under the e-Borders surveillance scheme do you know how many separate pieces of information on you and your intercontinental travel plans The Government wants to collect?

Under the e-Borders surveillance scheme do you know how many separate pieces of information on you and your intercontinental travel plans The Government wants to collect? Up to 25

Up to 50

Over 50

3. Do you know which Government agencies receive information on all travellers and tourists under the e-Borders scheme?

Do you know which Government agencies receive information on all travellers and tourists under the e-Borders scheme? Customs

Police

HMRC (‘the taxman’)

MI5/MI6 (‘the secret services’)

All of the above

4. ID Cards & you: Tick which of these facts about ID Cards you are aware of.

ID Cards & you: Tick which of these facts about ID Cards you are aware of. You will have to be fingerprinted.

You could be fined £1,000 and go to prison if you don’t inform The Government of changes in your status.

All new passport applicants will have to attend an interview and be forced to have their details put on the National Identity Register, the database that lies behind the ID Cards scheme.

265 government departments and as many as 48,000 accredited private sector organisations will have access to your information held on the ID Cards database.

The Inland Revenue will be able to trawl your financial transactions to see if there are any suspicious spending patterns.

5. The security of your personal information: Are you aware of how many confidential computer records of UK citizens The
Government lost in 2008 (according to The Register)?

The security of your personal information: Are you aware of how many confidential computer records of UK citizens The Government lost in 2008 (according to The Register)? 900,000

9 million

19 million

29 million records

6. Your electronic communications: Are you aware that The Government is pressing ahead with a project to record and track all electronic communications a person makes - every email, text message, web page visited, every Google search and phone call made?

Your electronic communications: Are you aware that The Government is pressing ahead with a project to record and track all electronic communications a person makes - every email, text message, web page visited, every Google search and phone call made? Yes

7. National Vehicle Tracking Database: Every journey you take on major public roads is tracked by a network of cameras with number plate recognition technology. Are you aware of this scheme?

National Vehicle Tracking Database: Every journey you take on major public roads is tracked by a network of cameras with number plate recognition technology. Are you aware of this scheme? Yes

8. Retention of DNA: Are you aware that Britain has the largest
DNA database in the world?

Retention of DNA: Are you aware that Britain has the largest DNA database in the world? Yes

9. CCTV – watching people in the streets
Britain has more CCTV cameras than any other country in the world. Do you know there’s one camera for every – how many – people?

CCTV – watching people in the streets Britain has more CCTV cameras than any other country in the world. Do you know there’s one camera for every – how many – people? Six

240

2400

10. What percentage of crime do you think the police discovered CCTV solves in London?

What percentage of crime do you think the police discovered CCTV solves in London? 75%

30%

7.5%

11. Unmanned drones: Were you aware that the police have started small scale trials using unmanned drones and are moving towards a massive expansion of this surveillance method?

Unmanned drones: Were you aware that the police have started small scale trials using unmanned drones and are moving towards a massive expansion of this surveillance method? Yes

12. What’s your biggest concern about surveillance and liberty? Please write your response below.

What’s your biggest concern about surveillance and liberty? Please write your response below.

13. Would you be prepared to help with any of the following?

Would you be prepared to help with any of the following? Help to fund court cases to challenge Government surveillance, much of which is actually illegal.

Distribute a leaflet version of this survey to colleagues, neighbours and friends.

Give a donation to help us raise £100,000 for a fighting fund for adverts and lobbying to make Government surveillance an election issue? You can go directly to http://www.ourworldoursay.co.uk/donate.php

14. Please enter your name, address,postcode and email address below.

Please enter your name, address,postcode and email address below. Name
Address
Address2
City
Postcode
County
Country if not UK
Email address

15. We’d like to keep you up to date with liberty and surveillance issues but in the spirit of non-intrusion we won’t contact you if you don’t want to be contacted. Write 'No Contact' below if you do not want any more more contact from Our World Our Say.

We’d like to keep you up to date with liberty and surveillance issues but in the spirit of non-intrusion we won’t contact you if you don’t want to be contacted. Write 'No Contact' below if you do not want any more more contact from Our World Our Say.

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey. It is important that we get it out to as many people as possible. If you use twitter would you forward something like the following:
Do you know how far Government surveillance of your life has gone? http://www.editurl.com/edy to take the surveillance survey.

If you don't use twitter would you just forward the following to friends and colleagues?

Do you know how far Government surveillance of your life has gone? Go to www.ourworldoursay.org/beingwatched-survey to take the surveillance survey - and find out more.

Thank you again.

Tim, Mike, Simone, Alastair - the team at Our World Our Say
Abit long winded, but this is what we're about: Our World Our Say works to give people a voice when politicians circumvent them, particularly over world changing issues. Through re-connecting ordinary citizens with their elected representatives and giving them a voice, we aim to give people power over their own future and invigorate the democratic process. Formed at the time of the Iraq work, 70,000 people have supported our campaigns.