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We are Britons in Britain. There is no one living here by the name of Average Joe. There are a lot of cameras here, many more than than some other places appa
by gerdesj 9y ago
We are Britons in Britain. There is no one living here by the name of Average Joe. There are a lot of cameras here, many more than than some other places apparently. The vast majority of those cameras are in town and city centres or on the motorways. It is possible that in Britain we are able to count better (and publish) than some other regions and hence look bad in this regard - who knows.
I don't feel more "surveilled" here than I do in say Italy, France or the US (all of which I am pretty familiar with). I will say that I do feel looked upon when driving along the M42, south of Birmingham, there are a lot of cameras there but that area is a massive cross-road for the UK and an obvious place to want to keep an eye on.
Push back? Will do when things really do go wrong. You don't know us ... mate.
- YeGoblynQueenne 9y ago>> Push back? Will do when things really do go wrong. You don't know us ... mate. Problem is, if things "really" do go wrong, it will be too late to push back.
- gerdesj 9y agoBear in mind that this is a land that has executed kings and been a short lived Republic, run up a fairly large Empire and died back down and is still a constitutional monarchy. We've done a few other things here as well. It's never too late. We're odd.
- YeGoblynQueenne 9y agoIt is also a country were police officers used the names and identities of people who died as infants to infiltrate activist groups, often having relationships with female members to gain their trust: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/undercover-policing-inquiry-activists-deceived-relationships-spies_uk_58e22f5de4b0c777f788af7f http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/undercover-policing-in... You don't need to wait too long, I'd say.