The Ultimate Big Brother comes to the UK

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by monster

OK, so what is the issue with CCTV? How exactly does it encroach on your personal freedom? It's not in your home (a la 1984), it's in the streets. In the areas where you would like to be able to walk freely without fear of attack. In the areas where you would like proof that the dickheed who ran the red and wrote off your car was at fault.

Would you rather get a warning or a fine for littering? What is the problem? Do you like to litter?

As long as the cameras aren't in my private space, I have no problem. How is it any more of an infringement of my personal liberties than it is when someone throws trash from their car that interacts with mine? Would I rather have the freedom to solicit for sex without the watchful eye of the state on me, or the freedom to walk home at night by myself safe in the knowledge that no-one will rape me because it's recorded?

I sort of have mixed opinions of them. One of the problems here in the US is that it would be very hard to take that system and expand it nationwide as it is in the UK. Regionally it is ok, but still very expensive. I know that they use them at many of the very large stadiums where they need to have a broder security cordon. I would like to see them in some of the seedier crime ridden parts of town but you know that some ACLU asshat would sue and say that it was racist.