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  • By Nate Anderson

    The Britain of today is watched constantly by CCTV cameras, is preparing for a national ID card, slaps a "crown copyright" on most government data, and can now censor websites and eventually boot people off the Internet.

    According to the new Liberal Democrat/Tory coalition government, that's all about to change.

    Full Story

  • CCTV cameras across London help solve almost six crimes a day, the Metropolitan Police (Met) has said.

    Det Ch Insp Mick Neville, who heads the Met's identification unit, said CCTV images were "treated like fingerprints and DNA" by the force.

    The number of suspects who were identified using the cameras went up from 1,970 in 2009 to 2,512 this year.

    Full story:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12080487

  • Please note that this article was originally published in February, 2005.

    Let me start by saying that I am by no means trying to imply that DVR, NVR or any other digital or IP based video system cannot produce good quality video evidence. There are even 2 or 3 high-end, mega-pixel quality digital surveillance cameras and systems on the market today whose capabilities far exceed those of a traditional analog based system. However, to my point, it seems more often than not digital based systems are producing very poor quality video evidence regardless of the system's actual capabilities.

    So why do DVRs typically provide poor quality video evidence? Here are a few of the common reasons:

  • CHICAGO (AP) - When the body of Chicago's school board president was found partially submerged in a river last fall, a bullet wound to the head, cameras helped prove it was a suicide.

    Full Story:
    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/06/cameras-make-chicago-closely-watched-city/

  • Jonathan Lewin, Chicago’s managing deputy director of public safety, believes that video cameras help officers protect citizens — and he has numbers to back up his claim. The Chicago Police Department says that Operation Virtual Shield, the city’s network of public and private surveillance cameras, has led to more than 5,500 camera-related arrests since 2006.

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  • Someday very soon, if you stroll through Piedmont Park, travel the Downtown Connector, hit one of the bars or restaurants in Midtown or visit the Georgia Dome or Philips Arena, you'll have an invisible companion: the Atlanta Police Department.

    This spring, the department will open a video integration center designed to compile and analyze footage from thousands of public and private security cameras throughout the city. Images from as many as 500 cameras in downtown and Midtown are expected to be flowing into the center by mid-summer.

    Full Story

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