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CCTV - A Legal Precaution or just a Security Precaution

  • 19-11-2008 1:23am
    #1
    jetsonx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭


    CCTV in public places

    Why is Ireland and the UK obsessed with CCTV?...think of any public place you visited today and think of how often you had big brother watching you (even when you were totally unwares)

    On continental Europe, they seem to have resisted the obsession with CCTV...at least to a lesser extent, than Ireland and the Uk.

    So are we just more security conscious OR it it just the "compo culture" mentality that is the main driver for CCTV to stop "Decco" filing "accident claims" left, right and centre.


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  • #2
    maidhc
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    jetsonx wrote: »
    CCTV in public places

    Why is Ireland and the UK obsessed with CCTV?...think of any public place you visited today and think of how often you had big brother watching you (even when you were totally unwares)

    On continental Europe, they seem to have resisted the obsession with CCTV...at least to a lesser extent, than Ireland and the Uk.

    So are we just more security conscious OR it it just the "compo culture" mentality that is the main driver for CCTV to stop "Decco" filing "accident claims" left, right and centre.

    In part the answer lies in history. The memory of spies and eavesdropping and the resistance to same is somewhat stronger there.

    Although I have done a lot of work in the area of privacy and the law surrounding it, I'm not convinced that CCTV is all that invasive. All in all, I think carrying a mobile phone is much more so.


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