Predator keeping close eye on you (From Bournemouth Echo)
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Predator keeping close eye on you
10:41am Friday 7th December 2012 in Opinion
BOURNEMOUTH has led the way in the past 25 years or so when it comes to CCTV technology.
The town was the first to introduce an urban network of closed circuit security cameras back in the 1980s and attracted a fair amount of publicity.
Now the system has been upgraded with 30 new Predators, which look like something out of a movie – hence their name presumably.
The details of what they do and how they do it are contained in the news story on page 2. But their arrival is bound to spark some debate on the rights and wrongs of the surveillance state – the stuff of countless conspiracy theories. Some people object to the fact that they are caught on camera pretty much wherever they go in towns and cities these days.
Others take the view, as we do, that they are a deterrent to crime and a big help in detecting it. If you aren’t doing anything wrong, you’ve got nothing to worry about.
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Richard 1976
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RingSpanner says...
10:25am Sat 8 Dec 12
Sounds like The Echo is trotting out that well known "If you have nothing to hide" fallacy. It makes you look rather simple.
I suggest you search for "If you have nothing to hide" on you search engine of choice.