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Britain is the World's Surveillance Leader
hax0r_par writes "It seems that in Britain, surveillance on the general public is happening and being recorded 24/7. They are playing the angle that this is allowing for criminal surveillance, which seems justified by the article. But it really is something to take into paranoid consideration now that we've got the technology to make this possible."
This is the name for the British surveilance system.
More info here
Not many tv cameras can keep operating after taking even a single blast of bird shot.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
While the crime rates in Britain soar, what do we see:
> An estimated 4.2 million closed-circuit TV cameras observe people going
Okay. Lets take pictures of all those fearless criminals. Seems that it's higly unlikely that all of those cameras matter. Out of the many tens of thousands of criminal acts that have taken place recently the cameras can only help with a limited few:
> In the past two months, British police used or > publicized CCTV imagery during investigations
> into a 12-year-old robbing a store at gunpoint,
> the disappearance of a doctor, attacks by a
> serial rapist, a father and son hit by a train
>, laptops stolen from a school and a soccer riot.
This is a nightmare of stupidity. I am so glad I don't live there.
> Soho resident Brooke Hartney, 24, a cafe
> manager, said she felt comforted by the
> cameras, including a fixed one right outside
> her apartment bedroom window.
I was looking at the live internet stream coming from that camera outside her bedroom window. She should learn to close her shades.
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I'm a Brit, but trying hard to become an Ex-Brit and new Kiwi ... we really don't care that the police and councils are watching our every move while outside, it's just no big deal and we rather like the comfort factor.
We understand that some other less intelligent races are rather paranoid about their goverments watching them .. why is that ?
cameras watch *YOU*... err... never mind.
Well I think people should stick to the damn speed limit and not make stupid excuses like "Oh the government is just trying to get more money out of us" (Don't break the law then!) or "It's going slowly that's dangerous!" (It's a fact that the faster you go the less time you have to react to unexpected events on the road).
I just hate idiotic drivers who think it's alright for them to drive fast because they're such leet drivers with great skillz and it's everyone else that's to blame.
graspee