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It's still just a test, but police surveillance cameras are keeping an eye on a wide swath of downtown Halifax.
Halifax Regional Police began installing the cameras around the city yesterday.
Don't count on the high-tech surveillance system being in one place for long.
The cameras being used by the police can be quickly set up in other locations according operational needs.
"This is still very much in the testing phase," said Const. Jeff Carr.
The areas under surveillance include Brunswick Street east to Halifax Harbour and the area between Duke Street and Spring Garden Road.
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Almost half of Canadians and even more Americans feel new post-9/11 laws aimed at protecting national security are too intrusive, says a survey conducted by Queen's University-based Surveillance Project.
"It would have surprised me if we had these results immediately after 9/11," Queen's sociology professor and the project's lead investigator, Elia Zureik, told Canada AM on Monday.
"But now... the whole sort of fear campaign has subsided and people are getting back to normal assessment which means that privacy means a lot to people."
Forty-seven per cent of Canadians, 53 per cent of Spaniards and 57 per of Americans called current surveillance laws intrusive.
Zureik said while the concern was high the level of understanding was not.
"Canadians known very little about legislation governing privacy of information across the country," he said.
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National ID cards
Showing a majority of support for national ID cards:
* France approved with 78 per cent;
* China had 77 per cent;
* Canada 53 per cent
The U.S. did not have a majority with only 42 per cent in favour of the cards.
Originally posted by Duzey
In my opinion, a false sense of security is worse than no sense of security. A false sense of security causes people to become lax, because it couldn't possibly happen to them.
Originally posted by Duzey
What doesn't the government do that costs us lots of money?