Last year French drivers killed (56) than
5,000 people on the roads for the first time in decades. Credit goes
largely (57) the 1,000 automated radar cameras planted on
the nation’s highways since 2003, which experts reckon (58)
3,000 lives last year. Success, of course breeds success: the government
plans to install 500 (59) 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 (60)
the seeds of an Orwellian world that was largely unacceptable in
Continental Europe. But last year’s London bombing, in which video cameras
(61) a key role in identifying the perpetrators, have helped
spur a sea change. A month (62) 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"
(63) In a British poll, 73 percent of respondents said they
were (64) to give up some civil liberty to improve
(65)