Only one crime was solved by each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year, a report into the city’s surveillance network has claimed. The internal police report found the million-plus cameras in London rarely help catch criminals. In one month CCTV helped capture just eight out of 269 suspected robbers. David Davis MP, the former…
Category: Surveillance
Nurseries protest over ‘intrusive’ early years qualifications database
Nurseries and early years organisations have questioned the role of a new nationwide electronic database – which will share nursery staff details and qualifications with local authorities – after one local authority threatened to pull nursery education grant funding if the information was not provided. There is no legal requirement for early years settings to…
Personal spy gear: Is it ethical? Is it legal?
… while it’s easy to find and buy surveillance devices, is it legal and/or ethical to use them? Is it okay if you use them to watch over strangers? Is it reasonable to use them to watch and hear family members and loved ones? The answers can sometimes be murky. “There are definitely legalities to…
Op-Ed on Lawless Surveillance by Cindy Cohn
Hugh D’Andrade of EFF points us to an opinion piece their legal director, Cindy Cohen, posted it to the blog of the American Constitution Society. The piece points out that the Obama Administration has embraced two of the most radical positions taken by the Bush Administration — that the Executive Branch need not follow the…