CCTV does not have a deterrent effect on violent alcohol influenced street brawls according to research conducted by University Hospital of Cardiff, published in Injury Prevention journal which compares actual emergency hospital admissions with unreliable police violence statistics.

The Sexual Offences Act 2003, became law on 20th November 2003, establishing the new offence of Voyeurism, with up to two years in jail and the Sex Offenders Register as punishments.

It looks as if the London JamCams are being censored again, during President Bush's visit. e.g. Whitehall/Parliament Square

If the new intrusive Passive Millimetre Wave Radar Cameras, which can "see under your clothes" are deployed at airports, will they fall foul of "child porn" laws ?

Does anyone fancy contributing to the mySociety inspired UK CCTV Mapping Project ?

Police plan to use CCTV surveillance cameras to protect Gatso traffic speed trap cameras.

Privacy International and EPIC have published their comprehensive Privacy and Human Rights Survey 2003 with lots of references for researchers of all kinds.

Requred reading for any students studying CCTV surveillance is the 'Foucault and Panopticism Revisited' issue 3 of the Surveillance & Society online journal.

London Tube stations at Mile End and Liverpool Street are testing Suspicious Behavior computer systems linked to their CCTV control rooms, using secret criteria. Where are the published rules about what constitutes "suspicious behavior" in a public place ?

How long before the US Military research into the linking of thousands of CCTV and ANPR surveillance devices Combat Zones That See (.pdf) appears on our streets ?

Neither the presence of CCTV , nor that of voyeurs with Multimedia Messaging Service camera phones, seems to have had any deterrent effect on this alleged rape in Brighton.

Many CCTV systems have built in audio recording, but even without this, there is no guarantee that your conversations cannot be monitored by Lip Reading Facial Recognition software being released for free by Intel.

According to New Scientist magazine, Nokia's Observation Camera with motion detection, infra red vision and GSM SMS and GPRS MMS capability for under �300 targets the Home Security and Remote Snooping markets, but raises Privacy and Data Protection worries.

European Court of Human Rights judgement on the Geoff Peck case. The ECHR has found in favour of Geoff Peck, who, with the help of Liberty went to court against the widepread media dissemination of unpixellated CCTV video footage by Brentwood Council which falsely implied he was a criminal.

Mr Justice Lindsay's ruling in the Catherine Zeta-Jones/Michael Douglas/Hello Magazine/OK! Magazine wedding photos case confirms that in the UK "there is no law of privacy".

The results from the Facial Recognition Vendor Test 2002 seem to show (please let us know if we are misreading the statistics) that even the very best systems can hardly manage a criminal or terrorist "watch list" of only 25 "suspects"

Censorship of London's Traffic WebCams ?. It seems that yet again, the public service images posted on the web from BBC/Transport for London JamCams are unavailable for operational reasons when they might show large crowds of people or police. This was noticable during the May Day Monoloply demos and now both recent large anti-war marches.

VIPER the new �7.6 million national ID parade video database has been opened in Wakefield, Yorkshire. What are the criteria for removal of a suspects video image from the database, or are you branded as a "suspect" for life, like with the DNA database ?

Only 10% of CCTV systems seem be compliant with the Data Protection Act according to a survey of 400 sites by Insight Data Protection

We have privacy concerns about the London Congestion Charge CCTV scheme regarding the massive centralised use of CCTV and ANPR technology.

The Scottish Executive is upgrading 23 CCTV schemes at a cost to the taxpayer of �2.5 million. Automatic Number Plate Recognition technology seems to be on the increase in Scotland as well as elsewhere.

The seemingly random murder of a 19 year old girl Marsha McDonnell in south west London minutes after leaving a bus has prompted the police to release CCTV footage from the multiple cameras now onboard many buses. Is it right to publish photos and to broadcast video clips, from 2 different buses, of 7 young men who could not possibly have been involved in the murder, and who are extremely unlikely to have witnessed anything suspicious, given that the murder took place in a side street off the bus route ?

The Observer reports that the London Congestion Charging cameras are to have Facial recognition software to scan drivers faces against a database of terrorist suspects, developed in secret by MI5, Special Branch and the Metroplitan Police. The consequences of a "false positive" match for an individual could literally be lethal.

For those of you who believe in the crime deterrent value of CCTV surveillance, the Existech wearable CCTV camera domes should make you feel safer.

The Home Office now seems to be pushing Iris & Facial recognition technology for the mandatory national ID/"Entitlement" smart card. Have they not noticed that both of these biometric identifiers can be easily stolen by even simple web or CCTV surveillance cameras ?