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About 8 years ago I had a chat over drinks with a guy responsible for a large part of Westminster Council's CCTV deployments. His take then was that the only l
by regularfry 14y ago
About 8 years ago I had a chat over drinks with a guy responsible for a large part of Westminster Council's CCTV deployments. His take then was that the only limiting factor preventing total surveillance (which, as I recall, he viewed as a good thing) was bandwidth. Next up was storage. Next was the software to integrate the feeds and make them human-comprehensible.
None of these problems will last very much longer, in the grand scheme of things.
- vidarh 14y agoWestminster is "special" in that it is very dense, has a lot of violence compared to its affluence (due to the amount of nightclubs and bars etc) coupled with a massive amount of high priority buildings, and the combination of that means that it has far more government controlled CCTV than pretty much anywhere in Britain outside of City. Westminster and City are probably the two small parts of London where there'd be a reasonable chance of "total surveillance". But even Westminster is also chock full of CCTV dead zones due to the narrow streets and complicated building facades with lots of nooks and crannies - it might be "easy" to get coverage of people moving along the streets in Westminster, but incredibly hard to eliminate opportunities for people to hide away.