In September last year I wrote about how “EU legislation turns UK plc into Big Brother” – the fact that EU legislation requires all public WiFi Internet traffic to be monitored and recorded 24×7 “just in case.” Well, the story has just made another leap forwards because the government has unveiled plans for a private company to run a “superdatabase” that will track all our emails, calls, texts, internet use and so on.

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This “scheme” sounds innovative on the surface – put some specially designed “speed bumps” (which can be flat or raised) in the road and they will harness kinetic energy from cars passing over them and turn it into electricity to power street lamps (etc) or feed surplus energy back into the National Grid. However, when we look at the economics things start to make you scratch your head.