REVEALED: How UK spent shock £4.6 BILLION on mass surveillance: ‘Security over privacy'
THE British government spent more than £4.6billion on mass surveillance technology from the defence, security, and aerospace company BAE Systems in 2016, a bombshell documentary has revealed.
UK government spent £4.6B on surveillance in 2016 says expert
On October 20, 2016, police conducted a controlled explosion on an explosive device in North Greenwich after a passenger spotted an unattended bag filled with "wires and an alarm clock" aboard a Jubilee line train. The bomb failed to go off, but police said that it could have caused mass casualties had it exploded. The media and Government on the day referred to the events as a "lapse of security" and the "most serious incident on the Tube since the 21/7 attempted bombing".
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Last year [2016], the Ministry of Defence spent over 4.6 billion pounds on BAE equipment
Since then, there have been five more terrorist attacks on the British capital, but it does not come close to the potential number there could have been, BBC’s “Weapons of mass surveillance” documentary revealed.
The 2017 series detailed how, with the help of BAE Systems, the government is using mass surveillance to monitor the public’s every move online and offline.
Presenter Nawal Al-Maghafi revealed: “The UK government has a very close relationship with BAE Systems.
“Last year [2016], the Ministry of Defence spent over £4.6 billion on BAE equipment.
“Senior government representatives meet with the company once a week.
“The UK government are considered world experts when it comes to cybersecurity and BAE has helped play a major part in that.
“According to the Home Office, it has been significant in every major counter-terrorism investigation of the last decade.
Jonathan Shaw, former head of cyber security at the Ministry of Defence claims public opinion on mass surveillance is changing following recent terrorist attacks.
He detailed: “The more terrorist incidents there are, the more people will see the benefits of favouring security over privacy.
“I sense a mood among the public that has moved the cursor more in favour of security and away from individual privacy.”
