Big brother is watching you
In society today everybody is under surveillance in Britain. This was expressed in George Orwell's novel 1984. The novel was written in 1948 talking about a time in the future. Although the totalitarian dictatorship he expressed has never arrived the technology for an intrusive state certainly has. We are caught on camera more than 300 times a day. The UK has around 4.2 million working cameras, that is more than any where else in the world except china. The main problem with having this many cameras in operation is the fact that they can be used to build up mini profiles on people, which ultimately crosses the line between individuals and the government. I believe this is wrong and intrusive plus this is all part of the government's conspiracy against freedom of speech. The government have explained the increase of CCTV by saying it is in place to help lower crime, however in the early 90's when the number of cameras were increased there was no evidence of them being used to lower crime and they seemed to have had no effect. CCTV camera are being used to watch us daily. Do you agree that this is an invasion to your personal space?
posted by Keeley @ 5:49 pm
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Many people believe that CCTV cameras breach Article 8 of the European Convention on Human rights
Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life
1 Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.
2 There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others."
Check out this site to see effectiveness or ineffectiveness of CCTVs in crime prevention...seems useful for preventing property crime but not so much for violent crime..the increased lighting (sometimes placed there to get a better picture) can be more effective in preventing crime!
its a controversial issue theses CCTV cameras. Recently on the news 3 men were sentenced to prison for attempted murder and one of them for murder. The court case against these men was just about to be dropped as there was not enough evidence against them. That was until recently when CCTV footage shows the 3 men attacking and murdering one of two innocent young men waiting for a taxi. Would those meglomaniacs have got away with murder if those CCTV cameras weren't there.
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