Comment Re: What privacy? (Score 1) 290
>Perhaps no one is
>complaining about cameras in the streets and
>shopping centers, but there'd be a bloody row if
>the government tried putting
>cameras in people's homes to ostensibly prevent
>crime.
Unfortunately this is exactly where it's all heading. CCTV in town centres reduces crime in the town centres, but the criminals don't just behave themselves from then on. It has the effect of moving crime out into residential areas where there is no CCTV... yet. Now, d'you think this could be used as the argument to extend coverage out in front of people's homes?
>complaining about cameras in the streets and
>shopping centers, but there'd be a bloody row if
>the government tried putting
>cameras in people's homes to ostensibly prevent
>crime.
Unfortunately this is exactly where it's all heading. CCTV in town centres reduces crime in the town centres, but the criminals don't just behave themselves from then on. It has the effect of moving crime out into residential areas where there is no CCTV... yet. Now, d'you think this could be used as the argument to extend coverage out in front of people's homes?
