All Britain's city centres, main streets and public spaces are now full of CCTV cameras, which we are told are to cut crime, but increasing evidence shows that they are ineffective in halting crime and even when they do pick up criminal activity the police 'see no ships' unless it is at best, convenient. All this spying has only one practical use, which is as a tool of an authoritarian, perhaps totalitarian, state.
In London you can now be harassed, assaulted or arrested by the police just for taking photos in the street. A trio of brave but determinedly peaceful activist-pranksters tried going a little further, by turning their own cameras on the watchers. Guess what...
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