It’s good to know that history repeats itself.

The UK is now the prime example.

From the UKDailyMail.com:

Put CCTV in EVERY home: Householders should help us trap burglars, says Scotland Yard chief

by Chris Greenwood

 

• Families should install their own cameras to help catch burglars, he said
• The Met chief said Britain needed more cameras to help fight crime

 

But privacy campaigners condemned the Metropolitan Police Commissioner’s suggestion.

‘The proposals on increasing the amount of privately owned CCTV cameras are quite frankly Orwellian and risk turning members of the public into an extension of the police,’ said Renate Samson of Big Brother Watch.

‘Private CCTV is completely unregulated. Recommending greater use of CCTV to gather more images of people’s faces – often innocent people’s faces – undermines the security of each and every one of us.’

She pointed out that a House of Commons committee had on Saturday released a report on the problems with facial recognition.

“Orwellian?”

Now there’s a foreign pot calling the kettle “1984.”

BZ