Talk:Talking CCTV

Cannot find reference to "with little public consultation". Can anybody help? Dingdongalistic (talk) 23:40, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

It's standard practice in the UK for surveillance devices to be installed with little or no public consultation. -88.109.90.99 (talk) 14:20, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

I've been ordered to stop eating food at a Pittsburgh subway station in 1992 by an operator of a movable camera using the PA system of the station. - 128.237.247.127 (talk) 15:35, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Hazards

Although some of the examples of manipulation demonstrated are benign -- telling would-be vandals to disperse or people who dropped trash to pick it up and put it in the appropriate receptacle, some possible uses aren't so innocuous. The same talking CCTV could tell someone starting to conceal merchandise at a store that such behavior is shoplifting can tell a shopper "You really do want that dress", a thoroughly manipulative behavior. CCTV that could tell someone looking into parked cars "You are being watched" as a deterrent to auto theft could observe a political button and then tell the wearer of that button "How could you possibly vote for that extremist/Commie/fascist/bigot/liar/misanthrope/traitor/thug/stooge/whatever?" The same technology that can tell punks about to "roll a queer" is aggravated robbery that can lead to a long prison term could also point out a homosexual to someone who fits the "queer-roller" profile.

If "Big Brother is watching you", then someone needs to watch Big Brother. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pbrower2a (talk • contribs) 09:20, 14 February 2012 (UTC)