Once again I’ve been extraordinarily lazy (big shock I know). But I couldn’t resist making a quick post regarding a story I saw on slashdot.org. The story details the fact that despite the huge number of surveillance camera’s in London (at this point close to 1 million) the camera’s fail to assist in the capture of suspects in the vast majority of cases. If security camera’s made people safe then the UK should be the safest place on the planet, but huge increases in violent crime would suggest otherwise.
Check out the story here. But its not like reality will stop the government in its hell-bent pursuit of surveilling every moment. Recently they proposed installing CCTV camera’s in 20,000 homes to keep an eye on troublemakers, too bad they’ll only work if the people are actually at home.
It looks to me like Orwell merely got the year wrong in his masterpiece ‘1984′
Tonight Big Brother is listening to:
"Road to Nowhere" by "Talking Heads"
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