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A 9 page overview of the issues surrounding camera surveillance. This paper addresses the question of impacts to privacy and comments on the relatively effectiveness of this tactic. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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spite of recent legislation recognizing the importance of privacy, for example the Human Rights Act of 1998, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, and the Information Protection Act of 1998;
our privacy is being intruded upon in both our personal and professional lives. Surveillance is now more and more frequently even occurring on our city streets with the use
of surveillance cameras. Even in the face of all the privacy concerns surrounding this issue, however, and even in the presence of certain doubts as to their effectiveness, the
thesis can be presented that: Surveillance cameras are an effective tool in the fight against
crime Goold (21) reports that by 2002 over one million cameras dotted the British urban
landscape alone. He estimated that an additional five hundred cameras were being installed weekly in British towns and cities (Goold 21). In Canada 1200 new cameras were to
be installed by the end of 2005 in Quebec and an additional 3000 in the transport system will be added to the 800 already in operation (Srikanthan 24).
The U.S. is in the process of establishing surveillance cameras in cities across the nation. Although lower courts have consistently ruled that
these cameras represent what amounts to an unauthorized police search, the Supreme Court has failed to confirm (Goold 21). Since 9-11 in particular it seems that the topic of
surveillance cameras is broached more and more often in the U.S. (Karlin 2). Indeed, they have already been installed in a diversity of areas. These include:
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