Latest Articles/News
International Group condemns Facewatch - ''Facewatch forms part of a ubiquitous surveillance culture that spreads fear and distrust''... more...
Landmark CCTV case in Australia - Mr Bonner's tribunal victory is a timely reminder that a meaningful debate is long over due... more...
The Manufacture of ''Surveillance by Consent'' - a trojan horse has been snuck into every public space in England and Wales... more...
New CCTV Code Consultation - proposed code creates a truly Orwellian definition of 'surveillance by consent'... more...
Canadian Privacy Commissioner Hits Out At ANPR - Should not be used to track the movements of law abiding motorists... more...
Government appoints CCTV yes man ... again - No CCTV warned in 2009 that more regulation is not the answer and we issue that same warning again today... more...
Open letter to UK Surveillance Regulators - A healthy society depends on the law-abiding majority being respected and trusted as they go about their daily lives... more...
Where to mate? 1984 please - Taxi cameras are part of a growing ''just in case'' mentality that treats everyone as suspects... more...
Britain under attack from 'talking' CCTV cameras - which stifle the very civic spirit they ''seek'' to create... more...
Internet Eyes and media politics - ''Let's bury our bad news on a busy news day'' says ICO... more...
Back to the Future - UK CCTV debate stuck in time loop - Imagine if you had a time machine could travel back to the 1990s... more...
Royston's ANPR ''Ring of Steel'' - a phrase coined to describe extreme measures now standard police ops?... more...
Surveillance Camera Code Con - the aims of such a Code are to entrench and expand the use of surveillance... more...
No CCTV's Freedoms Bill submission - there are constitutional, philosophical and sociological issues that must be explored... more...
CCTV / ANPR and the Manufacture of Consent - CCTV proposals in Protection of Freedoms Bill are really about manufacturing consent... more...
Face Covering: Guest Article - the Forward Intelligence Team is a particularly grotesque tentacle of the State... more...
Mr Jolly at Parliamentary Committee - little to celebrate in Protection of Freedoms Bill... more...
Protection of whose Freedoms Bill? - what does the Government really hope to achieve with The Protection of Freedoms Bill in relation to CCTV... more...
Exposing Naked Scanners - the core issue becomes whether this is the sort of world in which we want to live... more...
Bad Boy of the Week - ever wondered how Britain came to be watched by more cameras than any other nation?... more...
NO CCTV - campaigning against camera surveillance in the uk and beyond

Images by Brett Wilde / Nachod (Czech Republic) campaigners
- The UK is the most spied upon nation in the world - why doesn't it have the lowest crime rate?
- Whatever happened to the UK's common law value of 'innocent until proven guilty'?
- Research shows that CCTV simply does not work, so isn't it just a huge waste of money?
- Why do the media, police and government portray CCTV as an effective tool?
- Why has there been no public debate?
Better community reduces crime, technology does not
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