Jamie Wilson finds that all personal data can be had - for a modest consideration. We meet in a small and anonymous Italian restaurant just off Bond Street in central London. At a table in the corner, tucked away behind plastic plants, we talk business. "Target?" I hand him an embossed business card with a name, a company, and two telephone numbers printed on it. He places it on the table in front of him, takes a sip from a glass of beer and turns towards me. "So," he asks slowly. "What product do you want?"

Simon Davies examines the most unruly of all our human rights. On a hot summer day in 2001, Derek Smith (we'll call him that to preserve his privacy), unexpectedly discovered a closed circuit television (CCTV) camera scrutinising him from a neighbour's roof. Smith was relaxing at the time by the side of his backyard pool, watching over his two young daughters as they played in the shallow water. He gazed with growing horror at the device, which in future months he described as provoking a sense of "violation, threat, powerlessness".

Microsoft is developing Big Brother-style software capable of remotely monitoring a worker’s productivity, physical wellbeing and competence.

(CBS) It is America's new reality: security and surveillance. From intense scrutiny at airports to expanded government authority to track Internet use, federal agents now watch American citizens more closely than ever, reports CBS News Correspondent John Blackstone.

The internet is a hotbed for gathering information about you.