CCTV in Coventry

Britain now has 4.2 million CCTV cameras , one for every 14 people. Dr David Murakami-Wood, the co-author of a report to be presented on Thursday to a data protection conference in London, said to the BBC that Britain has "more CCTV cameras and looser laws on privacy and data protection" than any other industrialised Western state. Murakami-Wood continued: "We really do have a society which is premised both on state secrecy and the state not giving up its supposed right to keep information under control while, at the same time, wanting to know as much as it can about us."

The Green Party is against the idea of a further scheme to undermine civil liberties and increase state monitoring (the national ID card system). We're also in favour of far more community based, visible, policing to avoid this kind of drenching in CCTV.