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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

By Mick Meaney
RINF Alternative News 

The surveillance society is not just content to watch all of us, everywhere we go, but is now considering the monitoring of its own cameras, as members of the general public rebel against the dramatic increase of these privacy eroding systems - by destroying one of the most despised surveillance methods in the UK, the speed camera.

Vandals, freedom fighters or patriots, you decide, have been targeting speed cameras near the Scottish border along the A68, the A1 and the A697 in Berwickshire. Seven attacks in three years have officials and Big Brother supporters worried.

Colin McNeil, head of the Lothian & Borders Safety Camera Partnership, the company who manage the cameras said: “Every time it happens it is inconvenient, it is costly and it is a crime. It is obviously something that we are concerned about to such a degree that we are now looking at potential ways of monitoring sites.”

“There are companies there who would provide us with CCTV coverage of the cameras themselves - the cameras looking after the cameras kind of thing.”

The logical step in a democracy would be to remove the cameras instead of spending even more of the taxpayers’ money to replace them, as the message has clearly been sent that this form of surveillance is not acceptable.

However the authorities are continuing to advance the nationwide surveillance of drivers by taking technology to new levels with the Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system, which feeds vehicle and driver information into the Police National Computer database, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency database and insurance databases.

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