Olympic Surveillance Cameras Causing Concern - B.C. Civil Liberties

January 18, 2010 - CBC News
Security personnel are installing hundreds of closed circuit surveillance cameras around downtown Vancouver in preparation for the Olympics, but questions remain about whether or not many of the cameras will be removed after the Games.
By the time the installations are completed over the next 10 days, an estimated 900 RCMP cameras will be eyeing the crowds around Olympic venues like BC Place Stadium and GM Place. They will be watching for possible criminal activity and medical emergencies.
Another 90 cameras are being set up by the city of Vancouver at the two LiveCity party sites at West Georgia and Cambie Streets and David Lam Park, and along the makeshift pedestrian malls on West Georgia, Granville and Robson Streets.
The cameras are scheduled to be turned on Feb. 1.
The RCMP said its cameras are rented and will be removed after the Games. But the city's plan for its monitoring equipment has not been finalized.

City's Cameras Could Remain
The city has said it plans to deactivate the cameras after the Paralympic Games end March 28, but whether or not they will be removed is not clear.
"We need to approach it very cautiously," Mayor Gregor Robertson told CBC News.
"There's a reason to [use them] for the Games specifically but after that there needs to be a lot more dialogue. People have to understand what the pros and cons are before we move forward on that."
Groups like the B.C. Civil Liberties Association and the Surveillance Studies Centre said the social and democratic impact of mass surveillance must be considered.
People might be more reluctant to protest if they are being watched and if there is less interaction between protesters and the security forces that protect them, according to Simon Fraser University student Carmen Hung, a member of the Surveillance Studies Centre.
"Why, instead of hiring maybe more security personnel walking around the street [do] they have cameras?" asked Hung.

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[Mogh]

Government doesn't need to watch us. We need to watch the government.

[northerndisclosure]

But the Cameras will NOT WORK IF/WHEN a Terrorist hits Vancouver just like all the other times it appears the Government has a problem with the people watching how they pull of there Terrorist acts like they think we believe in a Muslim Boogie man.

End the Orwellian State... There is no reason to put security cameras up in our city.

[MrClawson9]

The UK have something like a street camera for 1 in 14 people in their country.  I bet they started with a few hundred too.

[rfalfonse]

Those pictures just show that the government`s conspiracy theories about Al-Quaida are false. The WTC photos show evidence of explosives and not small scattered office fires that the WTC buildings were designed to withstand

[TRIXSTER03]

You even favorited videos on youtube, that state in the titles that there is pictures of 9/11. You have tons of evidence right there. Fuck your stupid Fonse.

[TRIXSTER03]

Is Hard evidence, evidence, fairy tale anf government conspiracy theory the only terms you know? You have nothing. No evidnece or factual research on anything. Don't you know anything about homeland security? Get in touch with the real world.

Get the fuck off youtube

[rfalfonse]

Security threat level heightened on what evidence?

comeback when you have better than paranoid government fairy tales and conspiracy theories.

[TRIXSTER03]

GIVE US SOME HARD EVIDENCE THAT OUR SECURITY THREAT LEVEL ISN'T ELEVATED?

Give us some HARD evidence that this is all...(as you call it,) a fairytale.

See you have nothing you pathetic piece of shit. You even said to me that I am not turning this around on to you. Well I just did.

Do what I do,

Back up what you say with facts.

[TRIXSTER03]

Who said I beleive everything they say? You can't even state that because you do not know me at all.

And no I do not believe everything they say. It's common sense that our countrys security level is an elevated risk. Review National Defence summaries and Homeland Security.

Your a complete douche. Don't have a debate with someone if you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. Shut the fuck up. I am sick of hearing the same thing over and over and over from you.

[TRIXSTER03]

It has nothing to do with government. Your the one who keeps talking about the government and there.....conspiracy theories. Not me. You keep bringing it up.

[TRIXSTER03]

I never said terrorists were out to get us.

I said that's why we have elevated security.

[TRIXSTER03]

Ok, are you an idiot? I backed everything I said up with evidence----I.E. the website I directed you to. Which again has real police evidence.