Surveillance state

The precious privacy of the individual has been eroded by the constant attack on us by commercial institutions, as exposed by the Mail.

Some shops use every surveillance technique to intrude into our lives. Are we the most spied on, filmed and recorded country in the world?

We are drawing closer to George orwell’s chilling 1984 predictions as we sleepwalk into an unregulated, uncontrollable surveillance state.

every time we leave our homes, we are recorded a few hundred times a day on CCTV in the streets and in public and commercial buildings.

A balance has to be struck between security concerns and privacy safeguards, but the pendulum has swung too far to favour state and commercial invasion of our privacy.

The Data Protection Act is not strong enough to defend and protect our privacy. We urgently need a new constitutional right to protect us from unreasonable surveillance. Cllr JOHN WARMAN,

Neath Port Talbot. The leak from the national Security Council of the Prime Minister’s decision to override advice and approve Chinese involvement in providing a 5G telecoms network is deplorable, yet understandable.

Any number of British companies could construct the framework of these masts, so the Chinese involvement must be in the technical equipment that will receive and transmit data generated by every communication device in the uK.

how can Mrs May not see this is a security risk? no amount of encryption would guarantee state security, let alone personal data security. This decision must be reversed. GERALD R. KIMBER,

Lymington, Hants.