Seems some are oblivious to CCTV Security Cameras

I'm all for cctv and I see no sensible argument against it unless it's to make it more likely to get away with naughty stuff.

My sister used to have what looked to me to be a crappy system but that didn't stop the police calling on her multiple times to see if she'd caught anything and her crappy system did save me a few hundred quid when the guy opposite backed his car out of the drive straight into my MX5 and then drove off. When I approached him later he initially said "Did I?" but admitted responsibility when I said "Yes and I've got it on cctv."

As for those who watch snooping on people, my nieces daughter used to work in a monitoring centre and they've seen it all and quite rightly couldn't give a flying until something worth calling the emergency services over is seen.
 
woof woof said:
I'm all for cctv and I see no sensible argument against it unless it's to make it more likely to get away with naughty stuff.

My sister used to have what looked to me to be a crappy system but that didn't stop the police calling on her multiple times to see if she'd caught anything and her crappy system did save me a few hundred quid when the guy opposite backed his car out of the drive straight into my MX5 and then drove off. When I approached him later he initially said "Did I?" but admitted responsibility when I said "Yes and I've got it on cctv."

As for those who watch snooping on people, my nieces daughter used to work in a monitoring centre and they've seen it all and quite rightly couldn't give a flying until something worth calling the emergency services over is seen.
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Same here. I used to have a pretty good CCTV system covering my studio and it paid for itself many times over.

A driver once took off my door mirror and denied it, I sent the CCTV to his employer and they paid up immediately.
On another occasion, a driver backed into my car, got out, had a good look at the damage, looked up and down the road to see whether anyone had seen him and drove off. Again, his employer paid up without a quibble.

And a lorry completely wrecked another of my cars, again the driver denied it and the CCTV proved the truth. Each time, my own vehicle was parked and if it hadn't been for the CCTV I wouldn't have known who was responsible and my own insurance premiums would have gone up.

And, very often, the police used to call to view my footage.

There are potential privacy issues of course, but those issues, compared to the wholesale mis-use of data by the Government, NHS, Amazon, Google, Facebook and the like, are minor.
 
Garry Edwards said:
There are potential privacy issues of course, but those issues, compared to the wholesale mis-use of data by the Government, NHS, Amazon, Google, Facebook and the like, are minor.
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I really can't see any privacy issues for 99.9% of the population as from what my relative said the monitors just don't give a flying what people are doing unless it involves a call to the emergency services.

I suppose there is a risk of the rich and famous being seen using sex workers and the like... and that possibility should really be covered by eye watering consequences for those using cctv footage for anything other than a basis for calling the emergency services.
 
woof woof said:
I'm all for cctv and I see no sensible argument against it unless it's to make it more likely to get away with naughty stuff.

My sister used to have what looked to me to be a crappy system but that didn't stop the police calling on her multiple times to see if she'd caught anything and her crappy system did save me a few hundred quid when the guy opposite backed his car out of the drive straight into my MX5 and then drove off. When I approached him later he initially said "Did I?" but admitted responsibility when I said "Yes and I've got it on cctv."

As for those who watch snooping on people, my nieces daughter used to work in a monitoring centre and they've seen it all and quite rightly couldn't give a flying until something worth calling the emergency services over is seen.
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It would be nice if they would use it a bit more for people who litter, when out walking it is not nice seeing so much rubbish, both dropped and dumped.
So it would be good for use against fly tippers, I know some councils use it, but I think a lot more should use it.
 
woof woof said:
I really can't see any privacy issues for 99.9% of the population as from what my relative said the monitors just don't give a flying what people are doing unless it involves a call to the emergency services.

I suppose there is a risk of the rich and famous being seen using sex workers and the like... and that possibility should really be covered by eye watering consequences for those using cctv footage for anything other than a basis for calling the emergency services.
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The City where I used to live a few years ago, you would see sex workers at all times of the day, (as I was on my way into the City Centre ;) ).
They probably don't walk the streets like they used to, probably both workers and clients, possibly for fear of being spotted on CCTV, maybe?

Or maybe I am wrong, I would not know.
 
jonbeeza said:
The City where I used to live a few years ago, you would see sex workers at all times of the day, (as I was on my way into the City Centre ;) ).
They probably don't walk the streets like they used to, probably both workers and clients, possibly for fear of being spotted on CCTV, maybe?

Or maybe I am wrong, I would not know.
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I once lived in a red light area and it had zero effect on me and also, thankfully, I never heard any complaints from women about unwanted approaches... Each seemed to keep to their own. Maybe that experience wasn't and isn't the norm but at that time and at that place, no issues I or any of my little circle were aware of... but I can see how being approached when you're not in that line of work would be intimidating or at least annoying. This was in the 1980's. Other crime was a big issue though.

I'm all for cameras and for more emergency service action as a result.
 
woof woof said:
I once lived in a red light area and it had zero effect on me and also, thankfully, I never heard any complaints from women about unwanted approaches... Each seemed to keep to their own. Maybe that experience wasn't and isn't the norm but at that time and at that place, no issues I or any of my little circle were aware of... but I can see how being approached when you're not in that line of work would be intimidating or at least annoying. This was in the 1980's. Other crime was a big issue though.

I'm all for cameras and for more emergency service action as a result.
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I was used to red Light areas, as I grew up near such an area, never really bothered me in any way. I remember going on holiday to Amsterdam once with a gang of us, they all wanted to see the Red Light area, and they were all mesmerized by it, I simply shrugged my shoulders and told them I have seen the real proper stuff, not the silly carry on they put of for the tourists, that is just so false.
 
I was one of those tourists touring the red light area once. I saw some stunning women but did not indulge. One thing I liked was the perfumes in the streets until I was told it wasn't perfume but what they were smoking :D There is/was a dark side as two people were pulled from the canal the week before our visit so it's not all idyllic, we were told it was drug trade related.

I can understand red light activity passing me by but what was a blessing where I lived was that it passed my female friends by too which I guess could have been because people knew who was and wasn't a part of it all.
 
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Thought twice about posting but it's funny, really.

It's a fair step from the bottom of our garden to the house and when I'm gardening my boots get dirty epsecially if it's a digging soil job. They are laced and it's a pain undoing the laces to take them off to go into the house to have a pee so..out of view of any neighbours I would pop behind the garden shed. No more. The neighbour behind, to the right of our garden..we don't have a house directly behind us, decided, a few months ago to put up CCTV on the gable end of his house about 8m up to keep an eye on his side passage where he keeps 'stuff' :)
 
JohnC6 said:
Thought twice about posting but it's funny, really.
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TBH if you are peeing on your own property, and not his, I'd ask him to move / realign the camera's,
as he is invading your privacy...
Failing that, I'd just carry on as normal either back to camera or face to camera :D
 
Or make sure there's a suitable bucket in the shed.
 
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