kerkko.fi

Data Rape

Back in January 2009, David Bond packed a rucksack, kissed his pregnant wife Katie and toddler Ivy, climbed into his Toyota Prius and drove away from home. Nobody knew where he was going -- he didn’t even know himself. One thing he was sure about was this: "I'm going to leave my life behind and disappear," he said. In the days that followed, he was being followed by detectives.
It was Bond himself who persuaded the detectives to follow him. "I told them I was making a film about privacy and surveillance, and wanted to be hunted." He wondered if it was possible, in surveillance Britain, to keep himself to himself for a month. "I promised I wouldn't sue them, whatever they did, as long as they didn't cause my family any distress. 'We'll have you in four days,' they laughed."
Bond spent a long time finding the right detectives for his project, talking to countless retired coppers before he found Duncan Mee and Cameron Gowlett of Cerberus. Ordinarily, they work as investigators for major companies and law firms, scrupulously following the letter of the law as they trail organised gangs, often in unstable parts of the world. How hard could it be to find Bond?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article7096105.ece