Nowra NSW a single person has taken council to court to stop these cameras intruding on his privacy, and won!
Cameras of great use to police after a crime have been turned off.
Not sure if it was a member of the PC driven mob claiming to protect our privacy but sounds like it.
How do we see this.
How would we be without the cameras that caught the Murder of that ABC lady.
Or the Boston bombers?
Is PC intruding on common sense?

If they are going to turn off street cameras, they will have to turn off speed cameras, & red light cameras. These not only intrude on our privacy, but a form of self incrimination.

As I believe governments have become addicted to the revenue these provide, I expect a flurry of law making.

Nice to see the lawyers doing well.

Personally I have no problem with CCTV cameras when they are located in public places and are not hidden, as Belly points out they have been very effective in bringing to justice a number of seriously dangerous criminals.

It does however raise a deeper question and that is how far is it legitimate to go to catch people breaking the law. CCTV is at the bottom of a list headed by things like torture and entrapment.

No, we should not ban street cameras.
Street violence is increasing in our society
and having cameras in public places assists
law enforcement agencies in their work and
aids them in the protection of citizens.

Belly this needs taking a step further.

I was thinking we could use this technology to assist Lesser Britain and improve things in OZ at the same time.

Our nation was built upon the import of crooks, villains, bent judges, defrocked priests, bent politicians, crooked lawyers and general repeat offenders of all descriptions.

One would have to say they did a brilliant job of nation building for us however, it’s also clear that we now have a surplus of our former “nation builders”.

So to the solution, cameras.

All security and traffic cameras should be fitted with a “Paralysis Ray” to dispense an immediate halt to such illegal activities. A container truck would be automatically dispatched to the location to collect the offenders. We then pack all our criminals, crooked officials and child offenders of all types, into containers and ship them off to Lesser Britain so they get the chance to make Britain great again the same way we did. I suggested containers for importation into the UK as this seems to be the preferred mode of transport for immigrants.

We win by reducing the costs of our legal system; we put lawyers out of business and have no repeat offenders.

Perhaps OLOers could add to the list of categories for deportation?

How about spin doctors and CCTV technicians for a start?