内容摘要：Nam Hyun-joo, an employee at a theological school, told the BBC that she believed the Chinese Communist Party was "the main actor behind the election fraud". Standing alone outside the Constitutional Court in the biting January cold, she held a protest sign denouncing the judiciary.

Nam Hyun-joo, an employee at a theological school, told the BBC that she believed the Chinese Communist Party was "the main actor behind the election fraud". Standing alone outside the Constitutional Court in the biting January cold, she held a protest sign denouncing the judiciary.

"I work on self-service for Tesco and feel like I double up as a security guard," they said."You're not paid very well anyway and then you have tills to look after.

"I quite often have to monitor 10 self-checkouts, on my own, whilst two staff cover manual checkouts," they said, adding that there were many customers who steal and try to "con the system".Gaming developer John O'Reilly, 28, noticed the systems in their local Tesco in Woolwich in south-east London, and wonders how anyone can consent to "such deeply invasive technology".John says that everyone needs groceries so the number of people whose shopping can be tracked is huge.

"Are there even any rules informing customers before they enter? How on earth can the average person understand the extent of the tracking?"Are children even kept out of the dataset? Who can access this data? Is it shared with police? Is my data being sold? We need answers to these questions!"

Heather, 30, from Nottingham says the tech makes her feel uncomfortable and punishes shoppers who are honest and use the self-scan as intended.

"Yes, you have cameras following you everywhere in the store, but this is simply too invasive," she told the BBC.Mr Ganapathy adds that access to mobile phones, social media, roads and connectivity have made people more aware and less inclined to support an armed underground movement.

"People have become aspirational, mobile phones and social media have become widespread and people are exposed to the outside world. Maoists also cannot operate in hiding in remote jungles while being out of sync with new social realities."Without mass support, no insurgency can survive," he says.

A former Maoist sympathiser, who did not want to be named, pointed to a deeper flaw behind the movement's collapse: a political disconnect."They delivered real change - social justice in Telangana, uniting tribespeople in Chhattisgarh - but failed to forge it into a cohesive political force," he said.