More Big Brother Or "Nothing To Hide Nothing To Fear"?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/sadiq-khan-issued-with-legal-challenge-after-terrifying-number-plate-camera-decision-12664374
I am interested in what our learned ABers think, I am on the fence for the moment.

[FatticusInch]

Lol, paranoia confirmed!

[vulcan42]

Doesn't anybody think it strange that for every camera in New York, population 8.38 million, Central London has 57, population 1.60 million?

[jno]

all Brits want to be on TV, vulcan, and this is as near as most of them will get.

Still, you aren't quite comparing like with like. Greater London's population is about 9.5m, and I suspect in both cities you will find far more cameras in the inner city, where the money is lying around waiting to be stolen, than in outer suburb..

[FatticusInch]

vulcan42
//Doesn't anybody think it strange that for every camera in New York, population 8.38 million, Central London has 57, population 1.60 million?//

Not really. Unless I’m up to no good it kind of adds to the feeling of security should something go awry.
It’s technological advancement in the 21st but some of the Luddites don’t or won’t accept it.