I am trying to get an idea of how common covert video surveillance, as a form of social control, is in Britain and would be grateful if any one out there who feels they have been victims of this could contact me.
As far as I can tell this is now common place in hostels, prisons, mental hospitals and day centres, military establishments, and even private residences. Has anyone ever given you the impression that know things about you that they can only have learned by surreptitious surveillance, either video or just audio. This is an example of the sort of thing I mean Landlord spied on students The Irish Times reports that 10 students were awarded a total of €115,000 against their landladies who had installed electronic surveillance equipment to spy on them: Two Dublin landladies have been ordered to pay damages totalling more than €115,000 to 10 students who were tenants in their house after the Circuit Court found they had kept the students under secret electronic surveillance... The students became concerned in late 2004 that their conversations and activities were being monitored when the McKennas referred to details the students had discussed in private in the house. When they raised the issue with the McKennas, the students were evicted.... Judge Gerard Griffin yesterday found that the evidence in the case left him "in no doubt whatsoever that the defendants had kept these plaintiffs under electronic surveillance". The judge said he could not say whether it was audio or video surveillance or both, but he was concerned that yellow wires found in the house were of the international standard used for video recording. This isn't the first instance of this in Ireland - in 2003 a Galway landlord was found to have installed miniature cameras in the ceilings of his female tenants' bedrooms and bathrooms. Of course in this country the police are reluctant to prosecute in such cases. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
