Talking CCTV Cameras

**Will** · 04-04-2007, 02:15 PM

Talking CCTV cameras are coming to coventry. The idea being that people spotted committing an offence can be told off via a loud speaker on the camera. Sooner or later I imagine the system will be rolled out across the country.

So much for community policing I guess.

BBC NEWS | England | 'Talking' CCTV scolds offenders

The UK gets a little more like George Orwell's 1984 every day.

chillitt · 04-04-2007, 03:54 PM

Knowing some of the cctv types, I hope its got a swear filter...

**Shizara** · 05-04-2007, 12:31 AM

We'll have to borrow the Daleks and send them out into the town with their favourite work and action... EXTERMINATE!!! ...... ZAP! Then get back to real policing

cathidaw · 05-04-2007, 12:49 AM

Ifind all this frightening---especially having only read 1984 last year.
This is how it all started!

Everyone should read it ! then when people say 'Big brother' they would know that it is not just a catchphrase or a new expression in the O.E.D. but somethimg which will affect all our freedom.

Madhatter · 05-04-2007, 09:33 PM

I saw that too and posted it on the local forum, no comments yet, I thought they'd all be against it. Mind you I think everyones left town, theres no life these days.

**Shizara** · 05-04-2007, 10:12 PM

Well, we're still very much alive and kicking. What is troubling is the way that all the BB stuff is settling in and making itself at home... an expression "give an inch and they will take a mile" comes to mind....

cathidaw · 05-04-2007, 11:35 PM

Insidious is the word I would use

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Shizara Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Nuneaton Posts: 1,181	We'll have to borrow the Daleks and send them out into the town with their favourite work and action... EXTERMINATE!!! ...... ZAP! Then get back to real policing __________________ Cool

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Madhatter Chatterbox Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Atherstone Posts: 399	I saw that too and posted it on the local forum, no comments yet, I thought they'd all be against it. Mind you I think everyones left town, theres no life these days. __________________ Madhatter

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Shizara Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Nuneaton Posts: 1,181	Well, we're still very much alive and kicking. What is troubling is the way that all the BB stuff is settling in and making itself at home... an expression "give an inch and they will take a mile" comes to mind.... __________________ Cool

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04-04-2007, 03:54 PM	#2 (permalink)
chillitt Running on empty Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: warwick Posts: 450	Knowing some of the cctv types, I hope its got a swear filter...

05-04-2007, 12:49 AM	#4 (permalink)
cathidaw Community Senior Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Exhall Posts: 581	Ifind all this frightening---especially having only read 1984 last year. This is how it all started! Everyone should read it ! then when people say 'Big brother' they would know that it is not just a catchphrase or a new expression in the O.E.D. but somethimg which will affect all our freedom.

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cathidaw Community Senior Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Exhall Posts: 581	Insidious is the word I would use