"CCTV to be monitored by public for cash prizes"
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This is absolutely outrageous and the start of a very slippery slope indeed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8293784....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8293784....
k can that be legal is it april 1sttriggersbroom said:
Westy Pre-Lit said:
Surely that will contravene the Data protection act.
Article says that the viewer won't know what camera they are watching, and what is the difference between a random watching a camera and a store detective?
Either ways its a crap idea and subscribers will get bored after about seven minutes.
Police State said:
rpguk said:
Police State said:
The privatisation of the surveilance industry. This is not a country anymore, it's a business opportunity.
Nothing new in that surely? There's been store detectives watching CCTV for as long as there's been CCTV.With those children, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror.
Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it. The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother -- it was all a sort of glorious game to them.
All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which The Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak -- 'child hero' was the phrase generally used -- had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police in exchange for a cash prize.
Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it. The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother -- it was all a sort of glorious game to them.
All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which The Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak -- 'child hero' was the phrase generally used -- had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police in exchange for a cash prize.
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