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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...

BrumiLeaks, CCTV and democracy - leaked emails reveal lengths to which advocates of cameras will go... more...

The true cost of CCTV? - Big Brother Watch's report reiterates that CCTV cameras are a massive waste of money... more...

ICO's Surveillance Society follow up report - should have been a dire warning but lacks bite... more...

CCTV citizen spy game launches - another disturbing chapter in Britain's surveillance society... more...

Freedom not Fear demo in Germany - a protest of this magnitude against state surveillance is presently inconceivable in the UK... more...

Speed Cameras, ANPR and Project Columbus - the expansion of automated chekpoints around the UK... more...

NO CCTV - Birmingham Project Champion camera locations

In Birmingham a 'ring of steel' encircling parts of the city with Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras was created in 2010. The scheme is called ‘Project Champion’ and is funded by a £3m grant from the Home Office. Further investigation has revealed that the funding for this scheme was allocated allocated by ACPO (TAM) [Association of Chief Police Officers Terrorism and Allied Matters].

A group 'Birmingham Spy Cameras - NO THANKS!' has been set up in by Steve Jolly tp campaign against these cameras. See www.no-cctv.org.uk/campaigns/moseley_anti_anpr.asp

Click the below map to view the google map with the Project Champion camera locations:

To find out more about ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) / ALPR (Automatic License Plate Recognition) cameras search for "ANPR" in the search box above.

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