UK Government Surveils Citizens, Calls It 'Housing Enforcement'
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office found that government units, including those under Michael Gove, engaged in unauthorized surveillance of the housing industry. Ostensibly, this was to identify developers refusing to pay for post-Grenfell cladding remediation. (Because, naturally, you conduct covert operations against your own industries, not just foreign threats.) This isn't
'accountability'; it's mission creep. When the government eyes its own citizens and industries with the same tools normally reserved for national security threats, one wonders if the line between citizen and suspect has been permanently blurred. Or perhaps, the 'watchdog' only barks after the bone has already been swallowed. Funny how 'unauthorised' surveillance only becomes a problem when it's
exposed, isn't it?