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CCTV election plege - Brown see the expansion of the UK surveillance camera network as a vote winner... more...

CCTV Robo-wardens - another step in the ever increasing abuse of surveillance technology... more...

Naked scanners update - MEPs will debate the issue again this week... more...

CCTV drones - the replacement of policing by consent with policing by remote control... more...

Naked scanners, naked CCTV and barefaced lies - say no to digital strip searches... more...

No CCTV on Red Ice Radio - interview now available online... more...

Scots fast becoming most surveilled in the UK - councils have traded our liberty for security and lost both... more...

Government appoints CCTV yes man - to appease those who believe surveillance cameras would be okay if they were regulated... more...

BBC runs prime-time advert for CCTV game - disguised as an item about surveillance cameras in London... more...

CCTV in Scotland: Broken Record - policy makers have same disdain for rights and freedoms as their counterparts in Westminster... more...

Watch No CCTV's presentation - 'The Surveillance Society' filmed 31st October 2009... more...

ICO complaint seeks to halt CCTV game - members of the public concerned about the privacy implications of Internet Eyes... more...

ANPR - policing by consent? - recent information raises serious concerns about where the technology is headed... more...

Intenet Eyes - the privatisation of the surveillance society... more...

Project Javelin - A Met Police internal report reveals the future of CCTV... more...

Hounslow's ''Promise 10'' - to spend £1.8 million on ANPR and facial recognition cameras looks more like a threat... more...

Silly Season, Schools and CCTV - the Daily Express declared that CCTV was to be installed in the homes of 20,000 families... more...

BBC breaches charter - with one sided CCTV debate on Radio 4's Reality Check programme... more...

CCTV makes crime go up! - Crime figures show soaring crime... more...

CCTV Agenda creeps forward - The National CCTV Strategy has started to move into its implementation phase... more...

ANPR - the expanding network of checkpoints - that undermines the status of the UK as a free country... more...

Proposed bill - CCTV expansion in disguise - Draft legislative programme does nothing to address the civil liberties issues relating to CCTV... more...

Students fight school CCTV - Students walk out of class in protest... more...

Police's surrealist CCTV poster - That suggests people who look at CCTV cameras are terrorists... more...

Victory in police surveillance case - Police's use of surveillance with regard to law abiding protesters... more...

Study confirms ineffectiveness of CCTV - It is up to the public to halt CCTV expansion. ... more...

Google Street Update - Privacy international is calling for a review of the Information Commissioner... more...

Anti-CCTV advertising campaign - Digital photography students have devised an anti-CCTV advertising campaign for No CCTV... more...

Surveillance related consultations - Review of RIPA and crowded places consultations launched... more...

Councils misuse of surveillance - More evidence has emerged of misuse of surveillance in the UK... more...

Pub Landlord's CCTV victory - A landlord in North London has won his fight against CCTV in pubs... more...

Google takes curtain twitching to a new level - Google has launched its controversial Street View feature in the UK... more...

Police admit storing images - Police admit they store photos of peaceful protesters on a criminal database... more...

Back door CCTV expansion - Clause 31 of the Policing and Crime Bill could force anyone wishing to sell alcohol to install CCTV... more...

CCTV in pubs - It is becoming all too common in the UK for police to impose illiberal demands as a condition of getting a pub license... more...

Modern Liberty Convention - NO CCTV will be taking part in the satellite Convention in Bristol ... more...

Surveillance report slams CCTV - The Constitution Committee has published a report of their Inquiry into Surveillance and Data Collection.... more...

CCTV case at High Court - An important Judicial Review relating to CCTV is at the High Court this week... more...

Play the CCTV Treasure Hunt - A website that turns the tables on urban surveillance systems by ‘watching the watchers’... more...

CCTV spies on diners - Increasingly CCTV is appearing around the country with the ability to record sound as well as images... more...

2009: will decision makers heed CCTV warnings - Undoubtedly more reports will question the ethics and effectiveness of blanket surveillance in the UK... more...

Beat the recession - cut CCTV - councils around the country continue to fritter money away on this illiberal technology.... more...

London: In the Kingdom of Big Brother - Translation of L'Express article 10/9/08 about CCTV in London... more...

Update: CCTV sanity in Devon - Inspector Morgan stated that there were alternatives to CCTV - good investigative police work... more...

UK and Iran agree on CCTV and Human Rights - UK and Iran agree about CCTV not violating privacy rights... more...

Senior police officer calls for CCTV debate - A police officer in Devon has called for a debate into the use of CCTV... more...

DPP slams surveillance state - The Director of Public Prosecutions has spoken out about the growing surveillance state... more...

Body cams - Police around the country are increasingly starting to wear CCTV cameras... more...

Freedom Not Fear - On Saturday, groups all over Europe will protest against the Surveillance Society... more...

CCTV in schools update - More evidence that CCTV is being used to monitor the behaviour of pupils... more...

Guilty...until we get the CCTV clock fixed - CCTV used to alert public to three innocent people!... more...

NO CCTV in L'Express - NO CCTV were recently interviewed for an article about CCTV in the UK for French magazine L'Express... more...

NO-CCTV finds the plot - No CCTV has produced a graph showing the non-relationship between cameras and crime clear up rate... more...

CameraWatch call for ''upgrades'' - Today Radio 4 CameraWatch called for a new generation of cameras... more...

Blackpool CCTV review - A council group has been formed to review public realm CCTV in Blackpool... more...

More evidence against CCTV - A recent Crypto-Gram newsletter has some interesting CCTV links... more...

CCTV industry calls for more cameras - A surveillance 'arms race' is set to break out in the UK and the citizens of the UK will loose yet more freedoms.... more...

Security expert's CCTV warning - The time to address appropriate limits on this technology is before the cameras fade from notice... more...

Brown sexes up CCTV - Last week the Prime Minister gave a speech to IPPR about in which he sexed up a CCTV report from 2003.... more...

David Davis resigns - The shadow home secretary David Davis MP has resigned over the "slow strangulation of fundamental British freedoms by this government"... more...

China's CCTV laboratory - Many of the technology trends that we warned of in our Interim Report are being installed in China, such as a network of surveillance cameras... more...

Halt CCTV expansion - The Home Affairs committee today published it’s ‘A Surveillance Society?’ report. No CCTV calls on decision makers to halt the proliferation of surveillance cameras.... more...

UK surveillance sharing - video feeds and still images captured from roadside TV cameras can be transmitted out of the UK to countries such as the US.... more...

National cctv strategy starts to bite - Police are demanding access to Britain’s CCTV cameras... more...

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Justin RowlattBBC Needs a Reality Check

 
On Wednesday 12th August BBC Radio 4 broadcast an episode of 'Reality Check' that looked at CCTV cameras and surveillance with particular reference to the cameras on the Cowley Road, East Oxford.

Section 44 of the BBC's charter agreement states:

The BBC must do all it can to ensure that controversial subjects are treated with due accuracy and impartiality in all relevant output

In this programme that was clearly not the case and consequently they are in breach of their charter. The programme was a mix of pro CCTV propaganda and lies.

No CCTV has had an active campaign in Oxford fighting the installation of the Cowley Road cameras since October 2007. If you type "CCTV Cowley Road" into any internet search engine then No CCTV will be listed at or near the top of sites found. No CCTV produced a comprehensive report into the Cowley Road CCTV scheme and appears to be the only campaign group in the UK taking a strong and principled stand against surveillance cameras. Yet the BBC did not invite us to take part in the programme.

Read our full analysis of the programme at:
http://www.no-cctv.org.uk/blog/bbc_breaches_charter_with_one_sided_cctv_debate.htm.

BBC programme complaints can be lodged at http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints
The programme's presenter Justin Rowlatt can be contacted at justin.rowlatt@bbc.co.uk

The programme is available to listen to on BBC iplayer until 19th August.