Big Brother really is watching and listening

The Stasi and the KGB had nothing like the quantity of information that is being collected by western governments on the daily lives of their citizens

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Few people realise that they are being watched from above.

For example, there is a regular presence in the sky above some English cities of RAF SigInt (signal intelligence tracking) aircraft that intercept all signal communications, especially those from mobile phones.

The aircraft concentrate on cities with large Muslim populations, such as Bradford and Birmingham and areas such as east London.

This extraordinary level of surveillance began after RAF Nimrod aircraft, monitoring Taliban ...