You Are Being Watched (Part 3)
CCTV: YOU ARE BEING WATCHED is a “behind-the-camera” look at a British phenomenon with global implications.
Closed Circuit Television came to Britain in 1967, when a small tea house in Victoria introduced a basic black and white camera to see if patrons were taking too many tea cakes. From those humble beginnings, an entire high-tech industry has arisen! Today surveillance technology is so sophisticated it can be and is placed almost anywhere. Britain now has four million surveillance cameras deployed and by 2012 is expected to have eight million.
Duration : 0:8:55
You Are Being Watched (Part 2)
CCTV: YOU ARE BEING WATCHED is a “behind-the-camera” look at a British phenomenon with global implications.
Closed Circuit Television came to Britain in 1967, when a small tea house in Victoria introduced a basic black and white camera to see if patrons were taking too many tea cakes. From those humble beginnings, an entire high-tech industry has arisen! Today surveillance technology is so sophisticated it can be and is placed almost anywhere. Britain now has four million surveillance cameras deployed and by 2012 is expected to have eight million.
Duration : 0:9:52
You Are Being Watched (Part 1)
CCTV: YOU ARE BEING WATCHED is a “behind-the-camera” look at a British phenomenon with global implications.
Closed Circuit Television came to Britain in 1967, when a small tea house in Victoria introduced a basic black and white camera to see if patrons were taking too many tea cakes. From those humble beginnings, an entire high-tech industry has arisen! Today surveillance technology is so sophisticated it can be and is placed almost anywhere. Britain now has four million surveillance cameras deployed and by 2012 is expected to have eight million.
Duration : 0:9:36
Big Brother Camera System - Chicago
CCTV is a common abbreviation for Closed-circuit television, a system of remote monitoring using cameras. The increasing use of CCTV in public places has caused a debate over public surveillance versus privacy. There are currently more than 2,500 CCTV cameras in Chicago.
Duration : 0:7:52