Big Brother is Closing in on You

[PatchGirl]

The Daily Mail reports today that an astonishing £380 a minute will be spent on surveillance in a massive expansion of the Big Brother state.

The £200 million-a-year sum will give officials access to details of every internet click made by every citizen - on top of the email and telephone records already available.

State bodies including councils are already making one request every minute to spy on the phone records and email accounts of members of the public.

The number of snooping missions carried out by police, town halls and other government departments has rocketed by 44 per cent in two years to a rate of 1,381 new cases every day.

We're struggling to come out of a recession, there's mass unemployment so how can the government justify this extra expenditure?

Surely tax payers money could be put to better use?