From: Bodie (mclarkc@essex.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 11 2002 - 06:14:04 MST
I've been involved in the UK CCTV regulation campaign almost since the
begining (www.spy.org.uk) and it does seem like a lost cause and there is
a lot of public indifference, more than there used to be. People seem to
accept that the gov monitors every aspect of their life, and they don't
care. Quite a worrying trend really
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Richard Ridge wrote:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1865000/1865828.stm
>
> On which note, I recently noticed a petition in a shop near where I live,
> demanding that the local council install CCTV cameras. My prejudice has
> always been that this sort of thing is very British behaviour - they see
> authority as being largely ineffectual* and hence want to increase its
> powers, where my prejudice has always been that Americans would be much more
> likely to resent such intrusion and see it as being rather sinister. Would
> list members care to comment on whether this prejudice has any substance to
> it? Or are the type of people in the above report unrepresentative?
>
> *Hence CCTV really never bothered the British - most campaigns against CCTV
> have now been given up as a lost cause, due to public indifference.
>
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