1984

England, the UK, Britain, whatever name you use for it, the most appropriate name is Oceania, one of the three countries in the world of
Orwell's "1984".

We have more Surveillance cameras in operation in public spaces, private spaces and any other spaces you can name, than any other country in the world.

We have the world's largest DNA database.

Our government wants every one of us to have a biometric ID-card with all sorts of our personal data on them and even more on the government database that will be the backbone of the system.

And yet:

"25m child benefit records lost"
"The Child Benefit data on them includes name, address, date of birth, National Insurance number and, where relevant, bank details of 25m
people." That's more than 7 million families.

Hmmm. And they (the government) can't figure out why the public doesn't want those ID cards, that DNA database, nor all those bloody cameras.