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UK: CCTV: ICO ruling replaces Royston "Ring of Steel" with mass surveillance roulette

07 March 2014

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Charles Farrier of No CCTV said: "We find increasingly that we live in a state in which the police or the government know more about you than you know about yourself. This is not a healthy society in which to live. The network of mass surveillance number plate cameras that are used in Royston and throughout the UK was constructed without any public debate.

It is still the biggest surveillance network that most people have never heard of. The ICO might think it's okay to turn freedoms into a game of roulette – 'pick your route and guess whether you're under surveillance' – we do not. We will continue to contest these cameras that should have no place in a free country.”

See the full text: ICO ruling replaces Royston "Ring of Steel" with mass surveillance roulette (pdf) No CCTV

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