This thread is for those odd news snippets, surpressed photos, misfiled reports and anything else that might heighten our sense of paranoia. Items of local and personal interest are welcome as well as those pertaining to global doom. I'll start with this one that falls somewhere betwixt and between the above catagories.

www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/01/2833095.htm

Note: extra points for links that are suddenly pulled.

did you hear that noise?

No, I think you were imag...ooh, what was that?

Well, I can't see anything. Let me put on my glasses...

There are up to 4.2m CCTV cameras in Britain -

about one for every 14 people.


we are watching you!

how does that compare with the usa? i only ask cos you are in the usa.

Far fewer. We are too big a country in terms of area and population to make these things as ubiquitous as they are in Britain. That said they are popular in urban areas, around gov't buildings an in shopping malls.

it is unknown at the moment, but it is increasing

usa cctv use

GADGET wrote:


Apparently the UK has more CCTV cameras than any other country, and London has more CCTV cameras than any other place in the UK, and my area of London has more CCTV cameras than any other area of London.

From the chair I'm sitting in to my front door is five paces. From there to the nearest CCTV camera outside is fifteen small paces (or eleven large paces, but I'm being generous so let's stick with fifteen.)