Comments on: CCTV - Not Invading Privacy http://blog.jezmckean.com/cctv-not-invading-privacy/ adjective: see 'Recursive' Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:10:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Wayne Smallman http://blog.jezmckean.com/cctv-not-invading-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Wayne Smallman Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:05:34 +0000 http://blog.jezmckean.com/2006/11/05/cctv-not-invading-privacy/#comment-58 For now, what we have appears to work. But what we have is just one step closer towards a truly surveiled society. While we can sort of rest back easy in the knowledge that such infrastructure isn't currently being abused, that owes more to the checks in place on the current government than the hopes & aspirations of the government themselves, which I feel would certainly look towards extending the scope and range of such systems. But this topic only looks at one aspect of the whole Big Brother question that's lumbering around right now. What about the RIP act? This brought into force similar mechanisms for the internet. So taking a holistic view, I'd say that there's a legitimate cause for concern. The thing is, most of the crimes we see committed we see from CCTV footage. So this tells us 2 things: 1) the people in question have no clue they're being watched, or 2) the people in question couldn't really care less either way. No amount of surveillance will fix that... For now, what we have appears to work. But what we have is just one step closer towards a truly surveiled society.

While we can sort of rest back easy in the knowledge that such infrastructure isn’t currently being abused, that owes more to the checks in place on the current government than the hopes & aspirations of the government themselves, which I feel would certainly look towards extending the scope and range of such systems.

But this topic only looks at one aspect of the whole Big Brother question that’s lumbering around right now. What about the RIP act? This brought into force similar mechanisms for the internet.

So taking a holistic view, I’d say that there’s a legitimate cause for concern.

The thing is, most of the crimes we see committed we see from CCTV footage. So this tells us 2 things: 1) the people in question have no clue they’re being watched, or 2) the people in question couldn’t really care less either way.

No amount of surveillance will fix that…

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