The UK is building/has built a surveillance state using the boiling frog method. So even if you change vendors, surveillance will continue. You have accepted it as par for the course. Unless you reject it and subsequent politicians don't double-cross you, surveillance will continue. No question.

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pjc50 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Just like the US, saying "immigrants" and "crime" gets the public, or at least the media, to demand authoritarianism.

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ronsor 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

UK society has always been surprisingly tolerant of mass surveillance. Whether Palantir is involved or not, I think it may be too late to get off the train.

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throwaway150 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I know UK is ok with surveillance in public places because there is no expectation of privacy in public spaces. But are they really tolerant of surveillance in non-public places?

	▲	rorylawless 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No, not at all. The surveillance state nonsense is overplayed online.
	▲	hexbin010 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Brit here. Yes because the average Brit is insufficiently educated to understand the harm. They are very easily swayed by "think of the children" or saving just one life. They consume huge amounts of propaganda with little to zero critical thinking

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secretsatan an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It’s something that always horrified me, but it was just done without the governments help, they just let private individuals do it and gave away public spaces to private interests