Not wishing to downplay the subject, but the surveillance state is not a recent development in the UK. Tony Geraghty [1] was writing about this over 20 years ago. Back then, it was about how techniques developed for use in Northern Ireland during the troubles were beginning to be applied across the UK as a whole. This involved things such as the mass-interception of communications, or automatic scanning of car number plates on a massive scale with the aim of tracking all car journeys within the country. Recent developments are unfortunately just a continuation of a trend started a long time ago.