Last year French drivers killed 1 than 5,000 people on the roads for the first time in decades. Credit goes largely 2 the 1,000 automated radar cameras planted on the nation's highways since 2003, which experts reckon 3 3,000 lives last year. Success, of course breeds success: the government plants to install 500 4 radar devices this year. So it goes with surveillance these days. Europeans used to look at the security cameras posted in British cities, subways and buses 5 the seeds of an Orwellian world that was largely unacceptable in Continental Europe. But last year's London bombing, in which video cameras 6 a key role in identifying the perpetrators, have helped spur a sea change. A month 7 the London attacks, half of Germans supported EU-wide plans to require Internet providers and telecoms to store all e-mail, Internet and phone data for "anti-terror" 8 . In a British poll, 73 percent of respondents said they were 9 to give up some civil liberty to improve 10 .