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British Traffic Wardens Issued CCTV Head Cameras

Posted by samzenpus on from the microphone-shoe-soon-to-come dept.

Rick writes "The Surveillance Society of Great Britain has taken another turn for the worse, as traffic wardens in Eccles, Manchester are being issued with CCTV head sets and given the legal power to impose fines of up to £80 for littering and other anti social behavior"

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  1. Re:well by DuctTape · · Score: 5, Funny
    I understand the littering part, but antisocial behavior...?

    That would be "behaviour", mate.

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  2. Not all that ominous IMO by kennylogins · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ubiquitous remote cams on the other hand are. This is only recording what the guy is actually seeing anyway. Consider that it could even moderate overzealous law enforcement. Kind of like the cams on cop cars in the US.

  3. that much easier to watch the police... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is it legal for you to wear a camera to monitor the police? I'd consider that a civil duty.

    Quite apart from that, can the police be tracked by the signal from the head mounted camera and radio? Why yes, they can be. The more RF-emanating equipment the police carry, the easier it becomes to track them, know when they're coming, and evade them. RF profiling ain't that hard. Catch the litterbug, but miss the bank heist. Silly LEOs.

  4. Re:Propaganda by StikyPad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Moreover, I like the idea of police actions being recorded at all times. It (conceivably) increases accountability for the officers. This is not at all like posting cameras at fixed locations with loudspeakers, which offers no accountability for officers and plenty of opportunity for abuse.

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  5. British Traffic Wardens Issued CCTV Head Cameras by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lets see, if they imbed the camera in the old bobbies hat, elongated the roughly concial shape of the bobbies hat to stand approximately 6ft tall put wheels on it and add an electrified trucheon out the front, dont we end up with dalek V1.0?

  6. Why no mass uprising? by jihadist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Plato said that all democracies become authoritarian states through the fear of their people. Is that what we're seeing here? He also suggested that wealthy oligarchs would secretly control government, and buy huge blocks of votes when they needed power. This makes it easier for me to accept that 99% of the people out there passively accept this state of increasing surveillance and government power. We're more afraid of each other than of our governments, and so into total authoritarian dominion we go!

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