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but once that infrastructure is there, it becomes available for abuse, both above and below board.


It isn't as if they are all central controlled, a huge number of the cameras are in fact privately owned, probably don't work and if they do someone has probably forgot to put a tape in the VCR.



I've never seen the workings for the "4.2 million cameras" figure, it sounds like it's rife with double-counting and all sorts of logical errors. For example I have no less than four commerical-grade CCTV cameras in this room, none of them in operation, and another four cameras that would be counted as a "CCTV camera" if you were making a total of all consumer and commercial purchases.

Likewise, the article about George Orwell's house says the "...view of the tree-filled gardens outside the flat is under 24-hour surveillance from two cameras perched on traffic lights". FFS these are radar motion sensors used to detect a vehicle's presence!