Comments on: How many CCTV cameras per person?

By: La carte géolocalisée des 1106 caméras de surveillance à Paris | Suchablog

La carte géolocalisée des 1106 caméras de surveillance à Paris | Suchablog — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:31:43 +0000

[...] habitants vous semble un chiffre élevé, sachez qu’a Londres, il y aura pas moins de… 500.000 caméras [...]

By: A Paris, la police aura des yeux tout partout » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:34:38 +0000

[...] pour 3 000 habitants, Paris reste loin derrière Londres. Là-bas, chaque caméra est dédiée à 14 personnes [...]

By: Security London

Security London — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:59:41 +0000

Fom my experience 80% of the 4.2million cameras would be inadmissible in a court of law, but used correctly and responded to quickly CCTV is a excellent detterant

By: eliza

eliza — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:57:08 +0000

Great Post.keep posting

By: Who’s watching who? | digital-citizen.co.uk

Who’s watching who? | digital-citizen.co.uk — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:53:23 +0000

[...] used to agree with Lloyd Davis’ views of the CCTV infrastructure as a ‘civil rights car crash’ but now I’m not so [...]

By: atom

atom — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:35:51 +0000

Just for reference (and cos this page came up again when I was searching around this topic again):

if one adds a point in openstreetmap and then tag it with either man_made=surveillance or surveillance=public|indoor|outdoor then it will appear on this map:

http://osm.vdska.de/

By: John Feeney

John Feeney — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:08:43 +0000

Your fellow commentators have touched on the one subject we need to explore – alternative use of this system, i.e. sharing of links or potentially an open access to particular areas that are on CCTV cameras.

Couple of years ago the Planetarium on the Chicago lake front gave access too the public to view an remotely move the cameras around the lake front .
Navy Pier, Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, etc…

By: atom

atom — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:03:51 +0000

I’ve been thinking for a couple of years that a map of CCTV cameras would be good. Open Street Map definitely looks the best place to do it!

By: Lloyd Davis

Lloyd Davis — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:03:56 +0000

@suw thanks – they’ve come a long way since i last saw them – triffic stuff.
@steve – yes it’s complicated but worth thinking about more
@dan – love the link from there to the Amsterdam project where they’ve photographed and mapped all of the cameras in the city centre
@charles – I agree – govt are already doing this too, but I was also influenced by Dan at Interesting2008 who said something along the lines of “What would you think if we had a man sitting on top of all these lampposts, each with a pair of binoculars staring at you”
@adrian – shudder, I misread that and thought you said “granny vids” – was about to call social services….

By: Big Ade

Big Ade — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:08:04 +0000

Does this mean that 14 of us could club together and adopt a camera? Then we could use it to make grainy vids to sell to TV stations!!

By: Charles Frith

Charles Frith — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:32:12 +0000

I never have a problem with CCTV really. My problem is with a wicked government exploiting the ‘fear/terror’ scenario in the future. And they will.

By: dan mcquillan

dan mcquillan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:23:16 +0000

More accurate cctv maps would enable us to develop a UK version of iSee. "iSee is a web-based application charting the locations of closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance cameras in urban environments. With iSee, users can find routes that avoid these cameras ("paths of least surveillance") allowing them to walk around their cities without fear of being "caught on tape" by unregulated security monitors."

By: Steve Blamey

Steve Blamey — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:14:58 +0000

I remembered reading this, recently http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/25/police_uk_surveillance_cameras_policy/
There may be more to it than cameras in plain site – many others can be found in street lights.

By: Suw

Suw — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:26:12 +0000

Sounds like a job for Open Street Map – http://www.openstreetmap.org/