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With crime on the rise many people and business are looking for added security. Video surveillance is one the top ways to improve the security of your belongings and loved ones. I get asked alot about what is good or recommended and although each situation is different there are some common things to consider when showing a video surveillance system that will bring the required results.

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RIPA can justify anything……..

Well, sort of. <slight pedantry>RIPA is a regulatory framework so it is really a case of people justifying their actions in accordance with RIPA</slight pedantry>.

A RIPA authorisation to conduct surveillance is normally quite tightly worded – it has to specify a purpose of the investigation for example. I would love to see what the criteria for using traffic cameras to detect non-traffic crimes was.

As to the “think of the children” issue – it really is ludicrous to suggest it would have “offended” people or corrupted children. What century are we living in?

The funniest thing about this is that the picture is only in the public domain because an officer obviously gave it to the BBC and the BBC put it on their site.

So the person whose moon should have gone unnoticed by anything except a non-sentient camera (that wasn’t even supposed to be triggered, if the car wasn’t speeding) ends up mooning on the internet, and the BBC shows it with some hypocritical concern about the effect on kids. As if anyone would have seen it without the BBC and the employee who sent it to them.

Speed cameras were brought in on legislation which enabled them to take photographs of people who had broken the law. Although it was suspected at the time, it was strenuously denied that these cameras would be used to look for other crimes.

This strikes me a perfect example of the camera being used in a non-regulatory way to find other crimes.

I wonder what the RIPA justification was.

It is a big deal, though? Cell phones and RFID tags (such as ones in car keys, credit cards, cars) are essentially GPS devices, that can be an invasion of privacy…