Does your country's government know where you are so they can surveil you?

No.

Certain Civil-Service agencies, mainly His Majesty's Revenue & Customs, Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency, and the National Health Service, know my name and address and my details relevant to them, and they contact me as necessary.

Mainly by letter, which greatly reduces the risk of my being tricked by fraudsters pretending to one of those agencies.


HMRC collects my taxes on my company pensions, and pays my State Pension.

DVLA can verify I may still legally drive a vehicle that itself is legal for public road use.*

The NHS, via my GP, helps me stay as healthy as possible.


Surveillance though? Why? By whom?

I have given no reason to be watched and do not fear such is happening, though I might be worried and annoyed if I was!

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*Indeed, as DVLA will remind me, my car's annual "Road Fund Licence" fee is due next month...

I’ve always liked to think that there’s some poor intern assigned to my case that’s utterly traumatized at all times.

I always wanna know what that means, really.

What do they know? Who can access it. In what format is that data available? What does surveil actually mean in specific detail?

I have an iPhone, so I assume so 🤷‍♂

I should hope so. If anyone needs surveiling it's probably me!

If they do, I have some message for them: 🖕🏻

I would like to call them up and invite them over so they could monitor me. I would take great pleasure in boring the shit out of them for a few hours. They would be asleep on the coach in no time. It would ensure they left me alone for the forseeable future.

We aren’t that important 🤣