ready for more cctv?

[JamesW]

The average Londoner is captured on cctv something like 200 times a day anyway, so I won't mind one more.

[planeterotica]

JamesW wrote:

>
> The average Londoner is captured on cctv something like 200
> times a day anyway, so I won't mind one more.
>
planeterotica wrote:

Well i do mind and the first chance i get to dump this childish goverment i will, i have never voted conservative before but i will at the next election.

[tomtr]

I'm not sure that a change of government will make any difference to this.

[Peter]

tomtr wrote:

>
> I'm not sure that a change of government will make any
> difference to this.

Lib Dems seem to be making a push, but I doubt anything much will actually change whatever the colour of the Gov.



"Our first draft of the freedom bill contains 20 measures to restore the fundamental rights that have been stripped away in recent years. We would:

Scrap ID cards for everyone, including foreign nationals.
Ensure that there are no restrictions in the right to trial by jury for serious offences including fraud.
Restore the right to protest in Parliament Square, at the heart of our democracy.
Abolish the flawed control orders regime.
Renegotiate the unfair extradition treaty with the United States.
Restore the right to public assembly for more than two people.
Scrap the ContactPoint database of all children in Britain.
Strengthen freedom of information by giving greater powers to the information commissioner and reducing exemptions.
Stop criminalising trespass.
Restore the public interest defence for whistleblowers.
Prevent allegations of "bad character" from being used in court.
Restore the right to silence when accused in court.
Prevent bailiffs from using force.
Restrict the use of surveillance powers to the investigation of serious crimes and stop councils snooping.
Restore the principle of double jeopardy in UK law.
Remove innocent people from the DNA database.
Reduce the maximum period of pre-charge detention to 14 days.
Scrap the ministerial veto that allowed the government to block the release of cabinet minutes relating to the Iraq war.
Require explicit parental consent for biometric information to be taken from children.
Regulate CCTV following a Royal Commission on cameras."

[JonathanWilson]

Hummmm....

Funny how these things are only reported and news worthy when they affect london or the home counties.

In Ilkeston (Erewash council) we've had a CCTV requirement for all premeses opening "late" even if its something like a chippy and all licenced premesis no matter what time they open for well over a year.

We've also had fortnightly collections 2-3 years before it became a news item "darn sarf."

[Peter]

JonathanWilson wrote:

> Hummmm....
>
> Funny how these things are only reported and news worthy when
> they affect london or the home counties.

>

Very little outside of the M25 matters to the major news organisations.