Monday, March 27, 2006

More CCTV voyeurism

The Register points out that:
Tyneside police are investigating two civilian CCTV staff as part of a complaint into the 'possible misuse' of 'close-up' footage of naked participants in Spencer Tunick's mass nude shoot on the banks of the Tyne last July.
The Times has more details:
It is alleged that two police employees used the zoom lenses on the CCTV cameras to take close-ups of subjects and touted the images in pubs in the Tyneside area.
As I've said before the Irish Law Reform Commission warned about the abuse of CCTV in 1996 and again in 1998. To date, the Department of Justice has taken no steps to act on these warnings, despite rolling out extensive CCTV systems throughout Ireland.

1 comment:

  1. It even happens to the ocasional high-level politician ...

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4849806.stm

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