Those wacky Brits.

Too little, too late... but at least they're showing some spine. Plus, 72 year olds leading revolts against the government? Brilliant. You almost hope he signed off "I am Spartacus."

Reason Magazine - No Pictures, Please:

The United Kingdom is one of the most surveilled societies in the West, its 60 million citizens monitored by 4 million cameras, including 6,000 traffic cameras. The latter have touched off a wave of protests that are making politicians and traffic cops nervous.

Since the first speed cameras went up in 1992, the government has ticketed Brits to the tune of $210 million a year, with 58 percent of British drivers forking over fines. More recently, angry drivers have destroyed or damaged more than 1,000 of the machines with fire, baseball bats, explosives, and other techniques that drive traffic cops to use words like terrorism. Much of the vandalism has been carried out by a secretive group called Motorists Against Detection.

Britons angry over trash bin tracking:

"The British tolerate millions of surveillance cameras watching their every public move... But when they discovered that their garbage is being bugged, they howled that Big Brother had gone too far.

...In the coastal city of Bournemouth, 72-year-old Cyril Baker ripped the chip off his new bin the day he discovered it, then went on national television to show how he did it. Thousands of his neighbors followed his example. "It was a very emotional issue. The whole town was in an uproar," he said."