How many CCTV cameras are you caught on each day?

[Snotty]

I heard on the news or something that the UK had 10% of all the CCTV cameras in the world, and there seem to be security cameras all over the place.

On an average day,

4 cameras outside shop on the way to work
1 on the train station,
1 at least, when I change train,
1 or 2 if I get on one of the new trains
2 leaving the station
6 between my entrance to work and my department

So thats 15 different tapes each day, and then I havent even been to the pub or the shops. Not to mention I get taped on the same cameras if I come back home the same way.

I guess some of the cameras might be fake ones, and there may well be other cameras I dont even know Ive been caught on.....

so.....is this normal? I live in nice safe suburbs so the numbers not quite as high as it might be, but work and trains are both pretty high security

[C0ckney]

caught doing what?

[DanS]

Probably scratching his balls.

[Snotty]

[Kuciwalker]

Zero.

[Starchild]

On an average day, which means going round campus then into the city for a bit of window shopping? Easily ten or more.

[VetLegion]

None, I hope, unless I visit a bank. (Croatia)

[Dinner]

CCTV camera are every where in California. At ATMs, at stores, at banks, in parking garages, one the freeways (so tv stations can show pictures of traffic flows), at stop lights (to catch people who run the light), and in a bunch of other places I can't think of right now.

[TCO]

yo azz.

[alva]

None.

I'm amazed you guys don't have a problem with them but go ballistic with even the smallest notion of introducing id cards. Very weird..

[MikeH]

CCTV cameras are actually useful in preventing crime though.

[Dis]

We have many, many cameras where I work. But they aren't monitored (just recorded). And no one ever looks at them unless there has been a crime.

[Atahualpa]

Originally posted by MikeH
CCTV cameras are actually useful in preventing crime though.

I don't know...
It only prevents crime when people think they would be caught afterwards. I doubt anyone is watching over all those thousands of cameras or that any algorithms are in place evaluating for unusualness.

[alva]

Originally posted by MikeH
CCTV cameras are actually useful in preventing crime though.

So is putting everyone in jail.
I think all it really does is relocate (more serious) crime and catch a few drunks.

[Spiffor]

I'm not aware of any CCTV on my daily walk in Stuttgart (though I'm sure there are plenty of CCTV cameras in the subway, which I haven't bothered to spot yet).

In the Parisian mass transit, CCTV is a plague. They are plentiful in stations, and they are in every frigging bus