The British government wants to install more cameras on the streets, according to Daily India, which wouldn’t be a big deal given the massive numbers of cameras already all over Britain. The difference is that the cameras the British government wants now can see through clothes.
The British Home Office suggests placing them on lampposts. Obviously, there is concern that many in the country may object to being filmed minus their clothing just for walking down the street. The Home Office has offered a solution though: only allow female officers to observe female passerby, though they admit this might be difficult to do with crowds. Of course, no male could possibly have a problem with this new form of security, and no woman will have a problem with it so long as they can rest assured that only other women will look at the film.
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31 January 2007 at 1:54 am
Eeek! X-RAY Cameras? There goes the “Right to Privacy” right into the dustbin!
… I seriously doubt whether they’ll be able to implement this method properly.
31 January 2007 at 4:58 pm
I really hope they won’t, the UK seems like one of the worst on privacy but I don’t think the Brits will accept this.
1 February 2007 at 6:56 am
Naked X-ray pics of people walking down the streets of London? A new kind of porn perhaps? This is by far the worst proposition I’ve heard.
1 February 2007 at 12:18 pm
Agreed. What would be worse is if they combined the web-cam security system that anyone can watch with this system, (porn.gov, maybe).