Even as an American, I’m well aware of the history around surveillance in Britain. V for Vendetta was largely a commentary on it, Radiohead has made some references to government/corporate oversight in their albums, etc.
Comment on The UK has its own network of Flock-style AI cameras. So where’s the outrage?
Egonallanon@feddit.uk 2 days ago
The UK has been saturated with CCTV cameras of all sorts for decades so the frog has been thoroughly boiled on public opinion on them.
Impleader@lemmy.world 1 day ago
toohotforsoup@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ALPR cameras were invented in the UK in the 80s and as a country they stopped caring about privacy around that time as well.
perturbedstarstuff@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
They weren’t exactly subtle during the post-911 fascistic scramble.
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