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originally posted by: semperfortis
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"That's a busy place and it's just an extra set of eyes that you can have to make sure that should something go wrong, you got a record of it and hopefully track what happened," Kruea explained.
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originally posted by: Blaine91555
a reply to: semperfortis
I believe that if we are so paranoid that our Police feel they have to pull a Big Brother and spy on everything we do, we are not much of a country anymore.
I worry more and more about where this is headed in the future. It's just chip, chip, chip away at our privacy until there will be none soon. It's out of control.
It also concerns me how so many can't seem to see where this is all headed.
originally posted by: semperfortis
a reply to: Snarl
I'm kind of the same.. I could care less if they mounted a camera on my head.. They would just get bored watching the vid feed.. LMAO
But I can not ignore they "Big Brother" aspect either..
(And yes.. I am familiar with the parking.. AND DRIVING.. issues where you live.. SCARY )
And as technology gets better and more advanced, these chips may one day have the ability to actually speak directly to you from within you...how does a disembodied voice, barking orders at you, from inside your own head sound?!
originally posted by: MysterX
Basically, the cameras we have here in the UK are like a caricature of an over the top, Orwellian joke. They're everywhere.
originally posted by: MysterX
It's estimated that in the UK, if we leave our homes, we get recorded an average of 300 - 400 times a day.
The reality is that the McCahill and Norris figure (4,285,000 to be precise) as based on counting the number of cameras along approximately 1.5 kilometres of road in a busy commercial/shopping district. They chose part of Upper Richmond Road and the entire length of Putney High Street in the London Borough of Wandsworth. They started by counted the number of publicly accessible premises and established the average number of cameras per location, then added the number of open-street CCTV cameras operated by the Borough Council together with an estimate of those operating in public institutions such as transport, hospitals and schools. This figure was then extrapolated across the whole of London (population 7.2 million residents). They estimated that there were at least 500,000 CCTV cameras in London, or one camera for every 14 residents. Extrapolating this figure across the UK (population of 60 million) gave them the 4.285 million – the number that is quoted by so many to this day.
What of the 300-a-day figure? Well, we tested that as well. Instead of using a mythical character who undertook a journey to all the local CCTV hotspots, we used real people undertaking real journeys. Using the mapping information and their own observations, we listed all the ANPR, traffic light, and speed cameras that they passed, together with those business premises cameras that may have captured a fleeting glance of their vehicle as it passed by. We added the local authority cameras plus those in the various shops and leisure centres that they visited as they went about their normal activities. Finally, we added those cameras at their workplace. The figures ranged from 42 cameras to 101 with the mean average of 68. This is a far cry from the 300 a day that the media regularly use.