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Originally Posted by notjustgraphics
We hear more and more stories of deviants and perverts lurking with technology just waiting to capture a wardrobe malfunction or other act that seems to be of interest to people.
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I think you've highlighted an important point there, Mike. We
hear stories - and where do these stories come from? Mostly they are a result of hysteria whipped up by the popular media in order to sell newspapers etc. This "cause" is then taken up by the sort of illiterate cretins who, in Gwent (South Wales) in 2000, labelled a female paediatrician a "paedo" after a campaign by the
News of the World to "name and shame" paedophiles in the community. (For non-UK residents:
The News Of The World is the newspaper of choice for illiterate cretins. They never allow the truth to get in the way of a good story...)
The irony in the original story, I feel, is that the people who complained to the police about the guy taking photos in the shopping centre had already been captured dozens of times that day on various surveillance cameras - mostly without their knowledge. As Tony mentioned, the UK leads the world in the deployment of Closed Circuit Television camera technology - but there are no coherent, legally enforceable rules or regulations which ensure that Public CCTV schemes are run properly. It's estimated there's one CCTV camera for every 14 people in the UK - and it's claimed that every day we are caught on camera 300 times.
Compared to that, being snapped by a tourist in a busy shopping centre is pretty small potatoes, I reckon.