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Who lives in a house like this...?
Posted by freedapeople about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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On Norwood Road, opposite Brockwell Park there’s a freaky gingerbread swiss cottage, with 10 foot high railings and signs proclaiming ‘concealed cctv operates here’ (although actually I’ve counted approx 4 cameras so they’re not THAT well concealed). Anyway, I’ve never seen anyon...

CCTV Smart Car in Bloomsbury - what's it doing there?
Posted by MokAsh about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
8 responses
Has anyone else noticed the black and white CCTV Smart Car that seems to be eternally parked in the evenings on Great Russell Street, facing the junction with Bloomsbury Street? What is it doing there? What are they looking for? I know that TfL have a mention on their site about the car, or one like it, that is used...

Please don't piss here - have you seen the signs?
Posted by iSleepDiagonal about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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Around our magnificent underground train network, I’ve started noticing signs that say “don’t wee here you pikey oik” in a fantastically polite and helpful way – usually along the lines of “Please help to keep your station clean. If you can see this sign, you’re on CCTV. The...
premiumWhy are they watching me?
Posted by iAmJonny about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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I was driving along the North Circular last night and spotted, every half a mile or so, loads of little cameras lined along the gantries across the road. They looked suspiciously like the number plate recognition cameras they use for the congestion charge entry points. I’m guessing they’re either for s...

Do the 'Talking CCTV Cameras' bother you as much as they bother me?
Posted by MokAsh about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
48 responses
Ok, no doubt many of you have by now seen the news article on the BBC about these new town centre ‘talking’ CCTV cameras currently being trialled in Middlesborough, and apparently coming to parts of London soon: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6524495.stm Now, I am not really a paranoid conspira...

Has anyone seen those blacked out CCTV vehicles around town?
Posted by pubtastic 11 months ago
Last active 11 months ago
7 responses
I’m located in SW London and I seen a number of matt black, 4×4 vehicles with CCTV little cameras on the roof. The windows have riot van-like mesh over the smoked glass making it practically impossible to see the driver. On the sides they have signs written in yellow saying something like “surveilla...
premiumCCTV - Friend or Foe?
Posted by pottytime about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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CCTV – They’ve been in the news a lot lately, what with the UK being the most CCTV’d country in Europe – there’s apparently 1 CCTV camera for every 14 people in the UK. So – do they help our security? I don’t know about you, but I’d rather somebody stopped somebody mug...
