A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism. Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies would hand over the records to the Home Office under plans put forward by officials.

The only way to end invasive privacy violations is to reach cultural consensus, and maintain that through a separatistic community. That way you'll reduce the number of internal fears and establish an organic unity among people. In pluralistic societies like America, that same consensus is political (and hardly that, thanks to democracy), which means people don't trust one another and develop individualistic attitutes toward society ("Mind your own business"), leading to an increase in corruption and criminality.