General Discussion
Will the Dawlish Gazette, local radio, BBC Spotlight or Westcountry news pick up on this? Could the CCTV issue in Dawlish, which is arguably a microcosm of a national move towards surveillance become a nationalised issue in the media? Will the Guardian/Observer article shift any attitudes. The significance of such an article is unknown.
The posts are in, and when the weather permits cabling and cameras will follow. Let the monitoring begin.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance
Visit(Copy and paste): http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1962937,00.html See a commentators view on Dawlish CCTV issues in a national newspaper!!!!
Oh and don't forget the gradual but continual attack on free speech?
Spy satellites, the retention of electronic data records, now CCTV and the potential of ID cards being introduced. All of this is a dictators dream....What next?
Opponents of CCTV point out the loss of privacy of the people under surveillance, and the negative impact of surveillance on civil liberties. Furthermore, they argue that CCTV displaces crime, rather than reducing it. Critics often dub CCTV as "Big Brother surveillance", a reference to George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, which featured a two-way telescreen in every home through which The ...
First it was our major metropolitan areas, then our regional cities, now our towns and villages our getting CCTV. -The exact number of CCTV cameras in the UK is not known. A 2002 working paper by Michael McCahill and Clive Norris of UrbanEye [1], based on a small sample in Putney High Street, "guesstimated" the number of surveillance cameras in private premises in London as around 400,000 and ...
Approx 12 cameras are to be installed around the town at a cost of £70,000 taken from the proceeds of the sale of the Leonard Lamb Centre. Locations include: The Lawn, Barton's Car Park, Tuck's Plot, Queen St, King St, High St, Brunswick Place, Lawn Terrace Car Park, The Strand, Marine Parade, Piermont Place and the station approach. Strife will be no more once the council have CCTV installed ...
Oh and don't forget the gradual but continual attack on free speech? The price of freedom is eternal vigilance - Thomas Jefferson