I spent a month in the UK over the summer. It was crazy. Cameras every 50mtrs on the motorway, facial recognition being installed in many shops (thru a company called facewatch), many of the shops are employing fewer staff and funneling customers thru the self checkers that have large screens with cameras filming people as they scan their shopping. A lot of the customers (and more confusingly the staff) didn't understand why we didn't want to use them, even after we explained why (want to keep cash, don't want to be surveilled and filmed and want to keep people's jobs etc.. and btw customers will be doing your job for free and you'll be jobless). Some staff in supermarkets and pubs has started wearing body cams! Low emission and ultra low emission zones restricting cars and fining drivers (war on cars). It's getting crazy. Surveillance state.