I'm sorry, did you say something?

When your title said "Set up surveillance register", I that that was talking about spying on us little people.

Actually, you meant that someone should watch the watchers.

I doubt our govt will bother, sadly. Especially while Whacky Jacqui is around.

..if someone else sets up another surveyor to survey the surveillance surveyors.

if there are safeguards prohibiting companies from refusing service, or charging extra, to those who decline consent.

Consent is not proper when it is, to all intents and purposes, imposed as a "take it or leave it" condition of using a service. Consent must be entirely voluntary with an absolute right to decline without fear of loss of service.

... to force isps to block things we don't like and spy on people we don't like. You didn't just mean child porn obviously. Since these rules are in conflict we're going with the one we liked.

"The Parliament also said that users' online activity should not be monitored in the fight against piracy."

So this 'saying' of things is why we are now stuck with the Data Retention laws and a constitution we didn't vote for?

Some rare common sense on a subject better known for spin, evasion, idiocy and out and out lies, usually at the expense of the public and to the profit of shareholders. A legally enforceable charter of privacy rights is needed, and urgently, before it simply becomes ingrained that our private activities are nothing more than a free resource for corporate racketeers.

I'm not holding my breath.

I suspect they will want anyone with security cameras to register them with the police. A combined police and insurance company partnership, like with burglar alarms, will give police and government real time access to your cameras. It will start with the pubs and clubs as recently reported, then onto companies and schools then into the home. If you want to watch porn and drink beer then you will need this camera on the TV so the children are protected.

Ofcourse the government want to regulate spying, they want to have a look through the peep hole too!!