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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Halt the current policy toward the creation of a Panopticon society. More details
Submitted by D Flint-Johnson – Deadline to sign up by: 11 March 2008 – Signatures: 11
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The government seem determined to create a panopticon society through the introduction of an ever increasing number of CCTV cameras, ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition), and other tecnological methods to track our every move. UK police are experimenting with fitting mini-cameras to police officers helmets, to provide 360 degree video recording of incidents. We are increasingly being watched by people we can’t see. The UK Information Commissioner has estimated that there are 4.2 million CCTV cameras in the UK, one for every fourteen people, and the average person is captured on CCTV 300 times a day.
The following definition is from Wikipedia “The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell if they are being observed or not, thus conveying a ‘sentiment of an invisible omniscience’.
