Your comment is basically just whataboutism. Bringing up racism in the US for no reason (in a way that subtlety denies the massive racism problem in the UK/euro

Your comment is basically just whataboutism. Bringing up racism in the US for no reason (in a way that subtlety denies the massive racism problem in the UK/europe) just to deflect from the debate of surveillance powers in the UK is quite the take. Especially when the comment you are replying to seems to be written by an austrian not the american boogeyman. It's weird that you only focus on the issue of CCTV cameras, when the debate is about much more than that. British authorities are allowed by law to engage in massive surveillance that does not happen even in the US (or at least, not overly and not fully allowed by the law). You might be ok with that, but it's weird to downplay it. >but it will also introduce new domestic powers, including a government database that stores the web history of every citizen in the country. [..] >Police officers will then be able to access a central search engine known as the "request filter" to retrieve this information. [..] >The key point about this power, though, is that it has no judicial oversight. Access to citizens’ web history will be solely at the discretion of the police, with a specially trained supervising officer approving or denying requests https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13718768/uk-surveillance-laws-explained-investigatory-powers-bill https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13718768/uk-surveillance... But I guess CCTVs are not as bad as internet discourse says they are, so whatever.