A report published by the Royal Academy of Engineering has recommended that CCTV systems should be made freely available to the public. In effect, CCTV would become a network of webcams which anyone could view. The authors suggest that this would help avoid a Big Brother society, but as far as I’m concerned it would be worse than the current situation. While it could be argued that the current closed, need-to-view system of CCTV is Big Brother-like, an open system whereby any random psycho could log on and track my whereabouts and actions scares me much more.

Guardian article here.

Posted Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 @ 3:57 am
Filed in community and social, human rights, politics

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