Being Watched

We like to see murderers and thieves end up in prison. If they are【46】e______as a consequence of being filmed by security cameras, having their phone calls【47】1______to or their email messages read,【48】m______just be the weapon we have long been looking for in our war against them. Recent【49】s______breakthroughs have also made it possible to solve crimes that took place decades【50】a______, so that just about any story can be worked out from its ending. This, too, is good news; if it is true it means that there really is no hiding place for the wrongdoer,【51】______the police will always get their man, and that crime doesn’t pay.

The worrying thing is, of course, that it is not just the【52】______(crime) who are being watched. All of us have now become the stars of films made in shops, car parks and the high street. Records are kept, and sometimes【53】______(sell) , of the numbers we most often phone, while the emails we like to think of as being private and【54】______(person) are copied and stored by persons unknown. Some say this is the price of freedom【55】f______crime, and that the innocent have nothing to fear.

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