Big Brother Cab: Taxi CCTV to spy on passengers

Your every move and word could be recorded and used against you - human rights activists in Britain fight an increasing number of surveillance cameras - they're now to be installed in every taxi in the city of Oxford. Authorities in the British city plan to install an audio and video surveillance system in every cab by 2015. Campaigners have called the city council's decision a staggering invasion of privacy and claim people's rights will be violated. However authorities insist that the risk of intrusion is acceptable compared to the public safety benefits.

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[Luzitanpride]

police state

[Mremma14567]

Why don't the police put camera's in the board room's and government places (the places where crime is taking place)? Then maybe they'll stop writing more horrid laws, regulations and unpayable taxes, preferably before all us sheeple are dead.

[92Fishman92]

I would also complain about the busses having cameras but I don't pay to get in there anyway...

[mobspeak]

That's it, I'm not going to use the taxi service anymore.

[lumpnotlimp]

THOSE WHO WILL SACRIFICE LIBERTY FOR SECURITY DESERVE NEITHER! The ones putting this in place are repugnant to every Human's rights!

[kiwiblinks]

like how privacy is pronounced prevecy,..lol

[hotemil]

@christopherfulkerson let's me install one in your kitchen, I am sure you will thank me for that

[hotemil]

@DackIsBack it's not drivers who are pushing this, it will be forced by the gov

[elite1980s]

@Lychee7000 I agree, is what I call an open prison hellhole, you are surrounded with cameras & your where abouts monitor every day, home violated after the system breaks in, even though not a lot of people know this since they use stealth when they break in, your bank details passed on to the gov, they even know where you spent your credit card, what you bought and how must it all cost, eavesdrop to your phone communication, emails, internet activities, certainly makes people look like hamsters.

[elite1980s]

What a lot of people in the UK don’t know but I do, is that government agencies and the police can break into someone’s homes without a Judge's permission (like the old days), after Tony Blair took away that right which protect people in society from the State. When these criminals break in, they go through everything in you premises even into your bedroom, serious crimes have been committed and as final insult, plant surveillance devices in your place. Yet people worry about "Big brother cabs?"