Australian Pirate Party Stands Up Against the Surveillance Society

From ITNews:

the Pirate Party warned that "Orwellian" law enforcement surveillance powers would degrade the privacy of Australian citizens. "CCTV does not solve crime, it does not resolve underlying issues that are the root cause of crime," said Party Secretary Rodney Serkowski in a statement on Friday. "What it does do is create an environment of fear and distrust," he said. "It is obvious that the NSW Government has absolutely no consideration for, or understanding of, fundamental rights. The right to privacy underpins human dignity. The right to privacy underpins our democracy." Serkowski likened a pervasive CCTV network to "putting every citizen, unknowingly, in a police line up", warning that Police Commissioners were lobbying to apply the technology more broadly than to just suspects of crimes.