This surveillance onslaught is draconian and creepy »
Posted by: berkeley 2 months, 1 week agoClosed-circuit TV cameras are the crime-fighting tool so fiendishly sophisticated that they can be foiled by the wearing of a hood. Yet having stuck 4.2 million of the things around this country, with nary a consultation on the matter - nor any significant impact on crime statistics - efforts to pimp them to 2.0 status continue
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Gransater2 months, 1 week ago
There was a time when I much enjoyed visiting the UK, as I have allways had many a great times there with friends.
Since noticing the many cameras all over, I now make it a point, to bypass the UK, whenever I schedule a trip to Europe.
If they start putting those things here, in the same quantity as in the UK, I will find a country to live in, where they do not feel compelled to have this kind of surveillance on their populace. The minus colum is far larger than the positive colum, when trying to justify these electronics.
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