According to the latest studies, Britain has a staggering
4.2million CCTV cameras - one for every 14 people in the country - and 20 per cent of cameras globally.
It has been calculated that each person is caught on camera an average of 300 times daily.Use of spy cameras in modern-day Britain is now a chilling mirror image of Orwell's fictional world, created in the post-war Forties in a fourth-floor flat overlooking Canonbury Square in Islington, North London.
On the wall outside his former residence - flat number 27B - where Orwell lived until his death in 1950, an historical plaque commemorates the anti-authoritarian author. And within 200 yards of the flat, there are 32 CCTV cameras, scanning every move.
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