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Apparently there's over 4million CCTV cameras in the UK. 4 MILLION!
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0206/p07s02-woeu.html
The facts that streetlighting has been shown to cut crime more than CCTV cameras, and that the people watching the cameras are unlikely to be police officers (like THAT should make you feel much safer anyway), and are more likely to be badly-paid council workers (who may or may not be spying on naked women in their homes http://snipurl.com/ubq0) should possibly worry you. Just taking the issue of that many things tracking you alone, it raises questions of civil liberties - the things i do may be rarely criminal, but some of the things i do i don't want people to see, even if legal, and I guess that you might be similar.
Add the CCTV issue into the whole ID card debacle (currently overbudget and well off-target), plus new car-tracking technologies, mix in a healthy does of phone and email taps from our good friends at GCHQ, Menwith Hill, and other big-brotheresque constituents of technologies like Echelon (http://snipurl.com/kz5f - please ignore the slightly dubious URL, it's well referenced) kinda means...well...that n
o longer am I or you a citizen equal to those running the show, i'm a tenant watched by a fuckwit of a landlord who doesn't trust me with the crockery.
But hey, if you've been that desensitised to surveillance through reality TV then it's a positive boon to be watched. Thing is, it's going to be a lot longer than 15 minutes you're on video for now...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0206/p07s02-woeu.html
The facts that streetlighting has been shown to cut crime more than CCTV cameras, and that the people watching the cameras are unlikely to be police officers (like THAT should make you feel much safer anyway), and are more likely to be badly-paid council workers (who may or may not be spying on naked women in their homes http://snipurl.com/ubq0) should possibly worry you. Just taking the issue of that many things tracking you alone, it raises questions of civil liberties - the things i do may be rarely criminal, but some of the things i do i don't want people to see, even if legal, and I guess that you might be similar.
Add the CCTV issue into the whole ID card debacle (currently overbudget and well off-target), plus new car-tracking technologies, mix in a healthy does of phone and email taps from our good friends at GCHQ, Menwith Hill, and other big-brotheresque constituents of technologies like Echelon (http://snipurl.com/kz5f - please ignore the slightly dubious URL, it's well referenced) kinda means...well...that n
o longer am I or you a citizen equal to those running the show, i'm a tenant watched by a fuckwit of a landlord who doesn't trust me with the crockery.But hey, if you've been that desensitised to surveillance through reality TV then it's a positive boon to be watched. Thing is, it's going to be a lot longer than 15 minutes you're on video for now...
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