When the public CCTV cameras were originally being rolled out there were
many suggestions made for microphones to be installed as well, in different
situations for differently stated and always superficially helpful purposes.
Various reasons led to them not being installed originally with the most
telling at the time being that together with the cameras they would not be
seen as acceptable.
If the increasing use and spread is an accurate impression that appears to
have changed to a here, here, and with the newer court cases stating privacy
does not exist in public places, which will no doubt be interpreted as
providing official support and giving an unrestricted go ahead that further
encroachment seems a foregone conclusion. After all it seems no more than
the open admission of a tacit understanding that people may be bugged.
Ian Welton
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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:06:36 -0000
From: D F J Wood <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Aural surveillance
I hadn't realised it had gone this far - in Japan there are a few
cameras with microphones... But this many in the Netherlands, and
spreading?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2471987,00.html
David.
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