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Pretty funny when you hear somebody shouting over the Mic "Could the gentleman with the black bmw please move the car away from the double yellow lines, thank you", and for the first few month, anyone near looked... lmao]]>Apr 4th 2007 6:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/Apr 4th 2007 6:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/
I think it's a good idea.]]>Apr 4th 2007 6:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/Apr 4th 2007 6:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/Apr 4th 2007 6:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/Obviously the big worry is where does it stop; today: "litter our streets", tomorrow: smoking in public? ]]>Apr 4th 2007 6:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/
This scheme is only for town centers and is only to stop you from doing things you shouldn't be doing anyway.

As someone who doesn't mug people or litter I have no problem with being watched in a town center.]]>Apr 4th 2007 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/
Mind you, it does seem to work.]]>Apr 4th 2007 6:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/
comment by Andrew @ http://www.writerspace.net]]>Apr 4th 2007 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/
London, last time I checked, wasn't a town.]]>Apr 4th 2007 7:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/Apr 4th 2007 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/-Taylor]]>Apr 4th 2007 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/Apr 4th 2007 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/
now what they need to do is build in an aimable taser ;)]]>Apr 4th 2007 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/
People ALWAYS complain that there aren't enough bobbies on the beat, and short of recruiting new police officers, this is a great way to get them out there!]]>Apr 4th 2007 7:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/I'd recommend Red Road as an excellent film about CCTV surveillance.]]>Apr 4th 2007 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/
"excuse mee can u turn 90 degrees left a little so i can see more action less body movement"

couple "um, what, who, where"

camera "stfu and make love i was just about to have a wank"
]]>Apr 4th 2007 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/Apr 4th 2007 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

I saw this on the ten o'clock BBC news and i saw a CCTV camera which was owned by a company called Big Brother Security]]>Apr 4th 2007 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/
http://www.EveryStepYouTake.org]]>Apr 4th 2007 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/Apr 4th 2007 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/Apr 4th 2007 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/Apr 4th 2007 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/2. 'sleep-walking into a surveillance society' is exactly right, 4 million cameras... that is just insane...
3. Everybody should feel incensed about this, it is outrageous, of course it is a gross invasion of privacy, just because you are not doing anything wrong, does not mean that you do not value your privacy and should not have a say over it...
4. £500,000 will employ a couple of police officers for a couple of years. since only one of these cameras in a high street is hardly going to prove effective, you can count on quite a few per location. That should pay easily for a whole army of officers dedicated to that area alone. They would actually be able to takle problems first hand, and prevent violence and apprehend offenders.
Wonder how they feel when they can watch stabbings and muggings on CCTV and really tell the offenders off...'Oi you don't you mug that old lady, I say stop!, don't run away, I haven't finished with you, you bad boy!..., Oh well he's around the corner now..." That will cleasrly bo so much more effective than having a Booby on the ground, well done!
5. £500,000 to tell people of for dropping litter? It would pay for an army of Street sweepers, if that's your worry!
This is totally insane.
]]>Apr 4th 2007 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/I should read my posts through before I send them off...

6. What is the yearly running and servicing cost of these cameras? will probably put another 'Bobby' on the beat per camera...]]>Apr 4th 2007 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/I should read my posts through before I send them off...

6. What is the yearly running and servicing cost of these cameras? will probably put another 'Bobby' on the beat per camera...]]>Apr 4th 2007 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/
Just my two pennies worth!
(Translation: Just my two cents)!! LOL ]]>Apr 4th 2007 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/
What a heavy price to pay for safety if you sacrifice your freedom. I wonder how many of you Brits would scream like stuck pigs if they put cameras in your office to monitor how you work as well!!! This is a slippery slope that we travel down. You know this data will never be deleted. They’ll keep it on file forever under some pretext. How do you know that something innocuous you did now won’t become some major transgression later?

You Brits have already lost your country and don’t know it. Sad to say we in the US likely aren’t far behind. No wonder you get taxed at an absurd rate…just so you can buy more surveillance cameras and GATSO. You tax rate is astronomical. If you figured up all the taxes you pay, your government gets more of your money than you do!!!! At least in Russia you have more freedoms it seems than the UK. At least your tax rate is lower and you don’t have cameras everywhere. Sadly though with Putin in power it is going downhill pretty quick. At least if Russian sailors had been abducted the Kremlin wouldn’t have sat on their arse with their thumb up their bum and did nothing to retrieve them. I guess all the cameras to protect the UK didn’t do much to help their sailors. Iran tested you and you failed.

Does the UK have a spine any more? The only people your government stands up to is its own citizens! My family is originally from the UK and its said to see the decline of what was once a great society now fallen so far.]]>Apr 4th 2007 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/
"I for one welcome our back-talking all-seeing robotic overlords."


With that out of the way, I'd like to suggest that this is what you get when every potential criminal knows that their potential victim must, by law, be unarmed. If you outlaw guns/knives/mace, only outlaws will have guns/knives/mace. This is absolutely typical of a society that has placed themselves in such a mess: how to solve the problem? Let's install a camera that will *ask nicely* that whoever is committing the crime please stop.]]>Apr 4th 2007 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/
My favourite bit of Banksy art is the graffiti next to the CCTV. "Oi. Who are you looking at"]]>Apr 4th 2007 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/Apr 4th 2007 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/Apr 4th 2007 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/Apr 4th 2007 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/Apr 4th 2007 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/Apr 26th 2007 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/
How do speakers invade your privacy? Did you think no-one was watching before? They aren't installing more cameras - just adding speakers to the old ones. I'm against CCTV but all for these new speakers. Prior to this all the police could do is watch the crime take place - yeah, real helpful. At least now litterers/muggers will be made aware that they are being watched, thus potentially preventing them from breaking the law for fear of being caught. Makes sense to me.

By the way - I find it (darkly) amusing that the Americans go on about our dreadful Orwellian police state (oh noes - it's a speed camera) whilst holding Britons and others without trial in Guantanamo. You all ought to be ashamed.]]>Apr 4th 2007 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/Apr 4th 2007 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/04/oi-talking-cctv-cameras-coming-to-london/Apr 4th 2007 7:13PM