The independent checks and balances over biometrics and biometric-enabled surveillance must be strengthened to prevent Scotland from sliding into a surveillance state along with the rest of the UK, but that requires the Scottish Parliament to forge a different path forward.
NOT too many tears for Hatt Mancock in this parish, I expect. But in another part of your body politic, surely you felt a twinge of anxiety? Does the idea of your every office behaviour being watched by an Orwellian camera on the ceiling not discomfit you, even a little? At the moment of writing, this story – a combination of hands-everywhere farce and deep-state machinations – was sprawling in all directions. Geopolitical fingers are being pointed: both at the US security firm Emcor, and the Chinese camera manufacturer Hikvision, each involved in servicing the camera device. (But what twirly-moustached dastard turned the camera round from its normal physical position, the better to observe potential smoochings? Mua-ha-ha-ha.)
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