SecretLeeds - History, culture and architecture in Leeds

i don't no if anyone else has found this site here http://www.leedstravel.info/cdmf-webser ... ctv.jspbut as a user of most of these roads on a morning i have found this site a blessingADMIN> if you read this will you put this thread in the right subcategory please as i wasn't sure how.

....so you think you're alone - not these days, cameras everywhere. Do you know that people in this country are more 'surveiled' than in the States - and more than many other countries too!

[quotenick="chameleon"]....so you think you're alone - not these days, cameras everywhere. Do you know that people in this country are more 'surveiled' than in the States - and more than many other countries too! [/quotyep there everywhere check this site out    http://www.griffid.com/you can even control some of em if you intall Active X

Moved to 'Transport' section.That www.leedstravel.info is a useful site. I like the cameras, and I think the live departure boards from the train station and airport are pretty cool too. Maximum shouts out and respect to the team at the council for that one. And yes, Big Brother IS watching you ... fortunately in this instance he mainly just wants you to get to work on time.(Which is no doubt all part of 'their' secret agenda too. Conspiracy anyone?)dsco

chameleon wrote: ....so you think you're alone - not these days, cameras everywhere. Do you know that people in this country are more 'surveiled' than in the States - and more than many other countries too! Dont want to start an argument here but I say - GOOD.I for one am glad there are people watching over us, I have nothing to be ashamed of and nothing to hide so as far as I am concerned - more power to the cameras.    

There was once a programme on telly a while back showing how Leeds was the most survailanced (is that a word?) city in the country. I can't remember the stats but there were LOADS in town (good thing mind) and you can walk virtually nowhere in the city centre without being watched! Although I do think that I look suss sometimes taking photos of random drains and buildings in town

I don't believe we're being "survailanced" quite as much as we think. Every camera can't have someone staring at it 24 hours a day. It reminds me of a protester being interviewed on TV once, about Menwith Hill. She reckoned that every single phone call made in Britain was listened to there. At a conservative estimate, there might be a million calls in progress at any one time - that means three shifts of a million US personnel each work there!!!    

Not for one minute am I suggesting we are, and not even bothered to be fair, I do nothing wrong so not that fussed. I always wonder why some people are so bothered about this. What I was pointing out is that the potential is there should it be needed.

I agree with you, LS1. The potential is there. If there is an incident, they are invaluable for evidence after the event. It's just that some folk do think there is some kind of Big Brother nerve centre full of people watching our every movement. There isn't. (Cue knock on the door in the middle of the night!)

Si wrote: I don't believe we're being "survailanced" quite as much as we think. Every camera can't have someone staring at it 24 hours a day. It reminds me of a protester being interviewed on TV once, about Menwith Hill. She reckoned that every single phone call made in Britain was listened to there. At a conservative estimate, there might be a million calls in progress at any one time - that means three shifts of a million US personnel each work there!!!     It's all done automatically with voice recognition / key word recognition. If it hits a certain match point on their scale then it's listened too by a human. But everything is recorded and if no marks are matched it is deleted.