| HigHurtenflurst said: I've always thought there was too much fuss about CCTV cameras here in the UK, people spout on about it being an invasion of privacy that they are "being watched" but are ignorant of what is IMO a far worse invasion with data collected from online activities. The broken nature of CCTV coverage (not everywhere is covered and to get the 'full picture' of someones activities you would need to be in law enforcement and get warrants for various companies own CCTV footage) and that storage of video is more of an issue means that with CCTV the eponymous "they" might be able to figure out where you've been and what you were doing. The kind of information it's possible to gather glean from metadata and a little research online though could probably glean where you go, where you live, what you buy, who you contact and what you think. |
Considering the number of crimes that happen, and then the police there turn around and appeal to public for information to me suggests that they know less of what's going on than people think they do.
In Scotland, there was a uni student that went missing. Based on CCTV footage, they could identify just about everywhere he had been, but they had no clue where he was. Sadly, he managed to walk or fall into a river and succumed to the freezing water, but the CCTV footage was useless.
