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BRITISH police are studying Chinese-style surveillance tactics as they prepare security for the 2012 London Olympics, a leaked Scotland Yard report has revealed.
The report, marked “restricted”, reveals that among the “Big Brother” tactics deployed at last summer’s Beijing Games was the installation of miniature microphones in thousands of taxis.
The bugs transmitted passengers’ conversations to a police control room. There, officers could activate disabling devices to stop the cabs if they suspected criminal activity.
Originally posted by Laurauk
reply to post by jimminycricket
What would be more astonishing, is that the Taxi Drivers themselves would agree to have these bugs installed.
Originally posted by tristar
I guess its only time when you will see those blimps hovering above the city, they wont be too big but big enough to carry surveillance relay equipment.
Is it me, or is the world becoming over paranoid.
Originally posted by BaronVonGodzilla
Originally posted by tristar
I guess its only time when you will see those blimps hovering above the city, they wont be too big but big enough to carry surveillance relay equipment.
Is it me, or is the world becoming over paranoid.
I think it's you, and I think if you look carefully you should be able to find plenty to be paranoid about. The world is going to hell.
Originally posted by jimminycricket
This is just getting ridiculous now. Normally I brush off a lot of the "UK is most CCTV country" type stuff, as most of it is in private hands, not actually the government spying.
But this is going way too far. Taking tips from the Chinese on how best to spy on people. DISGUSTING!
I'm really annoyed by this, if they keep it up, and start installing bugs in taxis and that kind of thing, I think I will have to try and find an actual free country to move to, but I guess that's a pretty tough thing to do in our newly globalised world.
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