Sir, Nigel Shadbolt is right to say that privacy is a fundamental human right, and right to point out that it is quickly vanishing (Opinion, June 9). There has been much expansion in the surveillance industry in the past five years, and many new technologies introduced. What can we expect from the next five years? Or the next 20?
It seems likely that we are the last people to remember a time before continuous surveillance and other breaches of privacy. A generation will soon come of age having never known otherwise. Is there a chance they may forget to question these practices as abnormal, intrusive and potentially threatening?
Simon Stuart Macrae
London NW5