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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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Regal, Oxford - UPDATE 3
After the Cowley Road Carnival in July, No CCTV supporters visited the Regal only to find that not only had the Regal not changed their CCTV signs, they had actually added several more that also say they are recording sound as well as images.

Regal, Oxford - UPDATE 2
The Oxford Times reports that the Regal has "47 security cameras inside and out"! The club has been praised fot its tough anti-drugs stance by papers in the Newsquest group. The reactionary press seem to think that searching EVERYONE before they enter the club and subjecting them to extreme levels of surveillance is a good thing. Seems to us like guilty until proven innocent.

UPDATE - Regal, Oxford
The management of the Regal in Oxford have assured us that their cctv system does not and never has recorded sound. Apparently the notices they purchased were the wrong ones. We understand that the signs in the venue have now been changed to reflect the system they actually have which they assure us is in line with the Information Commissioners Office's recently released CCTV code of practice.


The code states: "CCTV must not be used to record conversations between members of the public as this is highly intrusive and unlikely to be justified. You should choose a system without this facility if possible. If your system comes equipped with a sound recording facility then you should turn this off or disable it in some other way."


Big Brother in George Orwell Square, Barcelona
The Catalonian authorities clearly haven't read 1984. Or have they? For further discussion see our Spring 2008 newsletter in the newsletters section.



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