| In the UK, home of twenty percent of the | | | | the scene in a timely fashion. |
| world's CCTV cameras, there is mounting concern | | | | There are many concerns for the rights of |
| about its invasion and lack of regulation. "UK Public | | | | citizens caught on tape as well. What, for instance, |
| CCTV Surveillance Regulation Campaign." | | | | is the policy on who sees what faces and how |
| The thought-provoking questions they ask are | | | | long those faces remain on tape and where? |
| good ones. | | | | To what other uses and outside firms will |
| They want to know, for instance, why, if | | | | information garnered by CCTV be handed out? |
| television programming and licensing is so heavily | | | | Will racial profiles of neighborhoods, for instance, |
| regulated in the UK that the same legislators have | | | | be sold to commercial marketing companies? If |
| never considered licensing for CCTV use and | | | | these videos are sold to outside firms what's to |
| installation? They ask also if the crime statistics | | | | keep them from using them in commercial ways |
| touted by CCTV proponents are accurate, or if | | | | that would include the display of photos? Might not |
| the criminals are merely being moved down the | | | | an advertising agency, for instance, use the photo |
| road to commit crimes elsewhere. | | | | of a prominent person such as an entertainer or |
| They want to know if civil liberties are being | | | | politician, as part of an advertising campaign? And |
| taken into consideration, or if they're ignored and | | | | if so, what about the rights of said entertainer or |
| thus violated. They want to know if close circuit | | | | politician? What about her or his rights to financially |
| television is really worth what they're paying for it. | | | | gain from the commercial enterprise? |
| Does it really, for instance, deter crime, provide | | | | These and many other questions are being asked |
| swift proof of guilt and reduce the number of | | | | by concerned British residents who see CCTV as |
| police officers needed to keep a vigilant watch? | | | | potentially invasive if not regulated, and in the |
| They also ruminate about whether these | | | | hands of the wrong people. |
| cameras, once in place, are actually being | | | | They also point out zealously that the May 2000 |
| adequately monitored. If, in fact, there are enough | | | | Declaration of Human Rights, delivered in |
| folks doing the watching that quick response can | | | | Strasbourg, confirms the illegality of the |
| be affected once a crime in action is caught on | | | | unregulated and undisclosed use of CCTV. Its |
| camera. If that is not the case – if, in fact, | | | | Article 8 stated it to be an interference to the |
| as they suspect, one person is paid to view a | | | | applicant's right to expectation of privacy and that |
| vast number of monitors at one time, then the | | | | this interference was a direct result of its not |
| cost of the equipment may in fact not be offset | | | | being regulated by any governing agency. |
| by the policing authorities' availability to arrive on | | | | |