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> From: Frode Hegland <frode () hyperwords net>
> Date: May 11, 2008 10:06:49 AM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: web: U.K. turns CCTV, terrorism laws on pooping dogs |  
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> "The United Kingdom has the most surveillance cameras per capita in  
> the world. With the recent news that CCTV cameras do not actually  
> deter crime, how can the local town councils justify the massive  
> surveillance program? By going after pooping dogs.
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> In a recent interview with The Guardian, the head of the  
> Metropolitan Police's Visual Images Office explained the failings of  
> CCTV:
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>     "Billions of pounds has been spent on it, but no thought has  
> gone into how the police are going to use the images and how they  
> will be used in court. It's been an utter fiasco: only 3 percent of  
> crimes were solved by CCTV. There's no fear of CCTV. Why don't  
> people fear it? (They think) the cameras are not working."
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> Conjuring up the bogeymen of terrorists, online pedophiles and  
> cybercriminals, the U.K. passed a comprehensive surveillance law,  
> The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, in 2000. The law allows  
> "the interception of communications, carrying out of surveillance,  
> and the use of covert human int..."
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