Ok, sie sind die Vorreiter. Sie haben 1984 zu einem schlechten Witz gemacht. Aber auch den Briten wird klar, dass es aber wirklich auch gar nichts bringt, sich als unschuldiger Bürger vom System überwachen und bespitzeln zu lassen.
[...] there's an overwhelming feeling that too often surveillance is used not to make the country safer but to monitor innocent people and, in the case of speed cams, raise much-needed tax revenues. "There's this notion starting to build in countries around the world that maybe we've been conned -- that these 'security measures' are smoke and mirrors," says Simon Davies, director of London-based advocacy group Privacy International. "People here are demanding a proper threat assessment. It's one area where Europe leads the trend."
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Study after study shows that CCTV (closed-circuit TV cameras) simply displaces crime to areas where no cameras are present rather than preventing it. According to a June, 2002, report from crime-fighting nonprofit NACRO, CCTV cuts crime only by 5%, vs. 20% reduction achieved by brighter street lighting. [via businessweek.com]