Yet another reason why I’m sad the UK is leaving the EU.
I believe we also have the most CCTV cameras per person in the world - or at least we’re the ‘most watched’ by sone other measure.
I believe we also have the most CCTV cameras per person in the world - or at least we’re the ‘most watched’ by sone other measure.
Here's a picture I took of the deployment: https://borjamoya.com/media/nl/cardiff-facial-recognition.jp...
Bear in mind that the vast majority of those cameras are privately-owned (i.e. shops, homes, etc.), not operated by the state.
What I want to say: the UK doesn’t need the EU to protect their citizens privacy.
But I understand what you say: the UK doesn’t seem to care about privacy, if it were in the EU it wouldn’t have a choice but to follow the rules.
I'm very (culturally?) surprised (and was a bit refreshing) that this is something considered negatively. In our country there's always this pressure to add more CCTVs to make the country safer, and CCTVs are generally seen as good, not bad.
I don't really know about UK, but maybe it's the difference of the trust on the government that they won't surveil? Does anybody have pointers on reasons of the difference of the view?
And in top politics there are tons of imbalanced folks who have pretty messed up views on the world and what is right and wrong (normal decent folks wouldn't stand long all the machinations and backstabbing happening constantly)
Of course I'm not advocating blindly trusting the government, but we generally do trust the government until it reveals otherwise.
After all, CCTVs are really just a tradeoff; they are for citizens safety, and accessing it is very restricted for privacy reasons.
> this is sort of one-way road [snip]
> Sooner or later somebody craving for absolute power and control will start abusing it, be it in intelligence or government (or both).
I'm not sure if it really is; democracy is there for a reason. (We have impeached our president in 2017 for various reasons - which for many people in our country, was a living example that sometimes politics work after all :-))