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UK Uses CCTV, Terrorism Laws, Against Pooping Dogs
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that it seems the UK is trying make up for their judicious use of surveillance cameras that, according to recent research, do not actually deter crime, by using the surveillance network to prosecute petty crimes. "Conjuring up the bogeymen of terrorists, online pedophiles and cybercriminals, the U.K. passed a comprehensive surveillance law, The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, in 2000. The law allows 'the interception of communications, carrying out of surveillance, and the use of covert human intelligence sources' to help prevent crime, including terrorism. Recent reports in the U.K. media indicate that the laws are being used for everything but terrorism investigations."
Actually I'm all for executing* people who don't clear their dog poop :-) As a dog owner I'm fed up of being tarred with the same brush..
Actually, I am for executing all dog owners. As a cat owner, I do not see any excuse why anyone should poop in the public in human cities...
There you are, staring at me again.
It would be scary, if 1984 wasn't a work of fiction describing a political situation which, even despite the rantings and ravings of people on YRO (and the shitty right wing tabloids that pass for a popular press around here) is quite a long way from implementation, even in the vaguest sense.
Just to remind anyone about to make another goddamn reactionary post on the subject that most CCTVs in the UK are not controlled by the government, and that at any rate it has been long accepted that you have no expectation of privacy in a public place, whether from a passerby, PC Plod or a camera on a stick.
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