Talking CCTV cameras will order people to pick up dropped litter in an extraordinary extension of state surveillance, it has emerged.Loudspeakers will be placed on cameras across the country, linked to local control rooms.
Any person spotted misbehaving, or dropping litter, will have orders barked loudly in their direction by the camera operator.
Failure to obey could lead to the police being dispatched, and an arrest made.
The £465,000 experiment, part of the Government's Respect offensive, was greeted with a mixture of incredulity and derision by critics.
Civil liberties campaigners said Britain already had 4.2m CCTV cameras - a fifth of the world's total.
Now, in a move which apes George Orwell's vision of talking screens being used to control citizens round-the-clock, they are being fitted with microphones and speakers.
2 comments:
Pardon my bluntness but this is so fucked up in so many ways....
First off, if the lightpost tells you to pick up the paper what are you going to say??
This is freaky - in some circumstances good, because it catches criminals, but to the average person, its like being on reality tv unknowingly.
I think it's scary ... if I'd had a few beers and a lamppost told me to to something, I'd think wtf !
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