a CCTV camera in every room in your house." After all, you've said you have nothing to hide! We are, of course, fighting for the principles - presumption of innocence / right to privacy - but I have found that some 'nothing to hide' folk can be made to think twice when you point out how easily they could become a suspect in a database state. As easily, say, as getting a letter addressed to the wrong person at your home address - and who's not experienced that at some point? Wihtin the database state, it's not what whether you think you've done something wrong, it's whether *they* think you've done something wrong. And if they control your identity, how are you going to prove your innocence - when it's your ID that will have drawn you to their attention in the first place? You may have been pulled in because you were tracked to a certain place at a certain time (Gordon Brown's sharing of retail data with the police...), or because your behaviour fits a 'profile' or deviates from some definition of 'normal'. Or because the technology simply isn't up to matching amongst 50 million fingerprints, and the police will - despite all assurances - be allowed to go on 'fishing expeditions'. How many Shirley McKies will it take to explode the fingerprinting myth? 'Nothing to hide, nothing to fear' cuts right to the heart of civil liberties - those things which protect us from the arbitrary exercise