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CCTV. Revisited.

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Once again the issue of CCTV has raised it’s head. This time it is as a result of a ‘Big Brother Watch’ press release that, I believe, totally misses the real point. I’m afraid I don’t have a lot of sympathy for BBW (and don’t put that into Google at work). They are an offshoot
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Why Big Brother isn’t the problem with CCTV

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At the end of last week I found myself at the top of Putney High Street doing an interview for Newsnight about CCTV. Following a series of freedom of information requests the BBC had discovered that Wandsworth had the highest absolute number of CCTV cameras of any local authority (although the Shetlands are the most
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