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You've obviously never visited London.

• zimpenfish 14y ago
  Nah, I reckon there's at least 150yds between my flat and a commute into the centre of London (~8mi) where there's no camera coverage. Possibly even 200yds!
• vidarh 14y ago
  And yet if the police wanted to trace you, they'd face utter hell of figuring out who operates what camera (mostly private businesses monitoring their own premises or immediate surroundings; sometimes local councils or agencies such as TfL; very occasionally a police force), get them to agree to hand over tapes (or get a court order), assuming the tapes have not already been deleted, and that the camera worked at the time. Repeat for pretty much every camera, and fan out every time they can't see you... While we're on camera most of the time in London, we can be pretty confident that the sheer hassle of obtaining footage and cost in processing them keeps the police from abusing it all that much...