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ITEM [via BoingBoing]: Something [livejournal.com profile] thelastaerie  might find grimly amusing – a snowblind CCTV camera in London, yesterday.



[Original pic from almost witty]

Which is worth mentioning because London has the world’s largest collections of CCTV cameras. Which in itself is worth mentioning because (1) it doesn’t make London any safer and (2) Britain seems increasingly hellbent on treating 1984 as an instruction manual.

Seriously. BoingBoing has a nice collection of anecdotes that make the Bush Posse look as though they weren’t even trying. I used to want to visit London. I don’t know that I’d bother nowadays.

The camera eye-yi-yi,

This is dF


on 2009-02-03 11:05 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] thelastaerie.livejournal.com
An average Londoner is filmed 600 times a day - that's a lot of CCTV, alright.

on 2009-02-03 11:42 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] jasonfranks.livejournal.com
London is shite.

I'm sure the former US government were trying to do all the same stuff, but I don't think they could figure out how...

(Passport control for leaving the country is a VENDING MACHINE that requires a FLIGHT ATTENDANT to operate it?)

-- JF

PS I'm not kidding about the vending machine... I tried to use it in O'Hare once and failed...

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