emergence of what Guy Herbert from the campaign group NO2ID calls, "The Database State", is that its development is inextricably linked to with notion that as good citizen's we should be required - indeed expected - to constantly proove: (a) that we we're good - i.e., that we behaving in a socially acceptable and socially endorsed manner and (b) that whatever we may ask for from the state, we are in fact entitled to ask for it. That is, that we must first proove our entitlement. Only by constantly monitoring us, under a constantly operating regime of surveilance may we achieve this and in the process, weed out those who aren't entitled and those are are deviant and dangerous to society. Such a view profoundly confuses the distinction between entitlement and privacy and is symptomatic of the move towards to emeregence of a totalitarian state. It is my view my view that we in the west are already well on the way to a new form of post-modern totalitarian state (what Guy Herbert calls 'soft fascism') in which behaviour and opinions which are disapproved of by the political class are pathologised and then regulated by violence-backed laws "for your own good' or "for the children" or "for the environment. The emeregence of the surveilance state is simply the icing on the cake if you like of the development of an infrastucture designed to orchestrate social control. Resonating strongly with the warnings Orwell extols in his book 1984, it's obvious how