Comments on: Traffic safety or surveillance?

By: Bill P.

Bill P. — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:19:51 +0000

This does not surprise me. Since these security cameras are getting smaller and cheaper, we will see more and more of these cameras deployed. Just check out http://www.acquireonline.org and you can see how sophisticated these surveaillance cameras have gotten. The states will be like the UK sooner than later…….

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Cameras and Security » Why Dont You Blog? — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:22:23 +0000

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By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:27:15 +0000

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By: TW

TW — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:22:52 +0000

RIPA can justify anything……..

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

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?

By: Alun

Alun — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:40:41 +0000

There could be an element of entrapment here. Would the gentleman have bared his buttocks if there were no camera there? It’s Cramlington, so we can’t be certain.

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:29:57 +0000

RIPA can justify anything……..

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.

By: TW

TW — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:12:44 +0000

The concern I have about speed cameras taking “intermittent shots” or what ever it is they are doing to have got this picture, is the sheer dishonesty about the whole system.

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.

By: Curly

Curly — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:44:13 +0000

CCTV, the panacea to all of our modern ailments……NOT!

By: Ted Goas

Ted Goas — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:09:48 +0000

We have those cameras all over the place in the states. If we build cameras, we don’t have to pay as many cops to be on the streets. It’s a pretty simple concept. I wonder why that camera snapped that photo on the BBC if the vehicle wasn’t speeding… Maybe it just takes intermittent photos that are otherwise deleted unless someone flags them beforehand?

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…