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It looks like a street lamp in a leafy London road... but this is actually a Chinese-made facial recognition camera - one of millions of sinister-looking CCTV cameras quietly installed across Britain in recent months
UK Daily Mail ^ | 9/4/22

Posted on 09/05/2022 9:41:01 AM PDT by Pollard

It looks like a street lamp in a leafy London road... but this is actually a Chinese-made facial recognition camera - one of millions of sinister-looking CCTV cameras quietly installed across Britain in recent months

With its imposing red brick houses, neat gardens and red postbox, Baskerville Road in the borough of Wandsworth is a classic example of family residences in the more affluent areas of London.

But something is amiss. Just outside a house on the corner, which happens to be the former home of World War I-era prime minister David Lloyd George, is a new piece of infrastructure that would seem more suited to the perimeter of a maximum security prison or a detention camp.

It is a disturbingly anthropomorphic CCTV camera, with two lenses that resemble eyes and two other indeterminate features that serve as the nose and mouth; and it hangs from a pole ringed with spikes to protect its hardware from would-be thieves or vandals.

Indeed, two of these rather sinister-looking structures — which appear to double as street lamps — have been installed on Baskerville Road, where homes fetch up to £10 million.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britain; england; policestate; privacy; spying; surveillance
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1 posted on 09/05/2022 9:41:01 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: Pollard

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11179641/Is-Big-Brother-Britain-worlds-ultimate-surveillance-state.html


2 posted on 09/05/2022 9:41:25 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: Pollard

Electric Eye - Judas Priest

Up here in space
I’m looking down on you
My lasers trace
Everything you do

You think you’ve private lives
Think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape
I’m watching all the time

I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean

I’m elected, electric spy
I’m protected electric eye
Always in focus

You can’t feel my stare
I zoom into you
But you don’t know I’m there

I take a pride in probing
All your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove

I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean

I’m elected, electric spy
I’m protected electric eye

Electric eye, in the sky
Feel my stare, always there
There’s nothing you can do about it

Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows

I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean

I’m elected, electric spy
I’m protected electric eye
I’m elected, electric spy
I’m elected
Protected
Detective
Electric eye


3 posted on 09/05/2022 9:43:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Pollard

Why have western people decided they no longer want to be left alone, or to be prosperous, or to be free? Why are they choosing oppression, suffering and famine? Because that’s what they’re going to get.


4 posted on 09/05/2022 9:46:56 AM PDT by Spok (Winston, how many fingers am I holding up?)
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To: Pollard

I dunno. This could be Big Brother in action. But I think it’s just an attempt by the state to pretend they’re doing something to fight crime.

“Yes, we’re letting in Muslim invaders who groom and rape our children. And they carry out random knife attacks. We don’t bother those folks. But hey, look. For your safety we just installed a camera on the corner.”


5 posted on 09/05/2022 9:47:53 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Pollard

I saw a post that’s gone now about folks in Colorado who’s thermostats did not work the other day, (not sure if it was true), but it got me to thinking that the gov can shut off your water, when the want, shut off your power, when they want, shut off our access to gasoline if they choose, stop you in the middle of the street for no reason, bust into your home with a no knock warrant whenever they like and folks were concerned that they couldn’t turn on the AC...it’s like maybe people will actually wake up here pretty soon.


6 posted on 09/05/2022 9:49:05 AM PDT by The Louiswu (If your child requires validation from Chuck E. Cheese you have failed as a parent. )
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To: dfwgator

The Rolling Stones - Fingerprint File
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dLa2l1tyx0

Fingerprint file, you get me down
You keep me running
Know my way around. Yes, you do, child
Fingerprint file, you bring me down
Keep me running
You keep me on the ground
Know my moves
Way ahead of time
Listening to me
On your satellite

Feeling followed
Feeling tagged
Crossing water
Trying to wipe my tracks

And there’s some little jerk in the FBI
A keepin’ papers on me six feet high
It gets me down, it gets me down, it gets me down

You better watch out
On your telephone
Wrong number
They know you ain’t home

And there’s some little jerk in the FBI
A keepin’ papers on me six feet high
It gets me down, it gets me down, it gets me down

Who’s the man on the corner; that corner over there
I don’t know. Well, you better lay low. Watch out

Keep on the look out
Electric eyes
Rats on the sell out
Who gonna testify
You know my habits
Way a head of time
Listening to me
On your satellite

And there’s some little jerk in the FBI
A keepin’ papers on me six feet high
It gets me down, it gets me down, it gets me down

It gets me down
Hello, baby, mm-hmm
Ah, yeah, you know we ain’t, we ain’t talkin’ alone
Who’s listening? Well I don’t really know
But you better tell the SIS to keep out of sight
‘Cause I know they takin’ pictures on the ultraviolet light
Yes, uh huh, yeah, but these days it’s all secrecy; no privacy
Shoot first, that’ s right... you know
Bye bye.
Right now somebody is listening to... you
Keeping their eyes peeled... on you
Mmm, mmm, what a price, what a price to pay
All right. Good night, sleep tight


7 posted on 09/05/2022 9:50:37 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Pollard
CCTV’s have been in Britain for DECADES.
Excellent for tracking down criminals and murderers.
Britain has a fer higher murder conviction rates than them deep blue Dem ruled cities like Chicago, Baltimore etc which have super high murder rates, with a very high percentage of them getting away with it.
8 posted on 09/05/2022 9:51:36 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: Leaning Right

Facial recognition of “Asians” will be considered racist. It will only be used on pasty white English people.


9 posted on 09/05/2022 9:56:00 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: Pollard

10 posted on 09/05/2022 9:56:54 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: Pollard

Birthplace of Orwell’s gonna Orwell.


11 posted on 09/05/2022 9:59:44 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Pollard

Have you never seen the movie “V”? Go see it. That is Brit’s future.

Of course, without Guido it will be more like “Fahrenheit 451”, forever war and forever slavery.


12 posted on 09/05/2022 10:08:30 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: Pollard

You never watch FBI Tuesday evenings on CBS?


13 posted on 09/05/2022 10:08:36 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: Pollard

Well, it was the country in where both Marx and Orwell made their mark. Sad. But we should not criticize, as we are only a few years behind them...if that much.


14 posted on 09/05/2022 10:12:23 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Jeff Chandler

Uh oh, the Stones are questioning the FBI?


15 posted on 09/05/2022 10:14:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SmokingJoe
Britain has a fer higher murder conviction rates than them deep blue

How long do they stay in jail. A year?

16 posted on 09/05/2022 10:14:32 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Pollard

Poison the data, waste computing resources.

Low tech means to defeat the man - https://tinyurl.com/2b9vt8fd


17 posted on 09/05/2022 10:17:36 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Much, much longer than they do in the deep blue Dem run big cities of America, who usually let the killers out in hours with no bail.


18 posted on 09/05/2022 10:23:15 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: Pollard

Would a bb gun take out one of those cameras?

Are bb guns even legal in the U.K.? Wrist Rockets? Pea Shooters?


19 posted on 09/05/2022 10:25:49 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Pollard

Britain has had one of the highest if not the highest concentration of surveillance cameras in the world for decades. And a pretty big nannystate that bans everything it looks at. This is nothing new.


20 posted on 09/05/2022 10:29:44 AM PDT by jarwulf ( )
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