Last year French drivers killed【1】than 5,000 people on the roads for the first time in decades. Credit goes largely【2】the 1,000 automated radar cameras planted on the nation's highways since 2003, which experts reckon【3】3,000 lives last year. Success of course breeds success: the government plants to install 500【4】radar devices this year.
So it goes with surveillance these days. Europeans used to look at the security cameras posted in British cities, subways and buses【5】the seeds of an Orwellian world that was largely unacceptable in Continental EuropE.But last year's London bombing, in which video cameras【6】a key role in identifying the perpetrators, have helped spur a sea changE.A month【7】the London attacks, half of Germans supported EU-wide plans to require Internet providers and telecoms to store all e-mail, internet and phone data for 'anti-terror'【8】. In a British poll, 73 percent of respondents said they were【9】to give up some civil liberty to improve【10】.
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