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Three images of our surveillance state

We have received a number of pictures recently that demonstrate the ubiquity of CCTV in Britain today. Unfortunately the photographers weren't equipped with their free Big Brother Watch Guerilla stickers when they saw these depressing images, but I thought it was worth putting them on the blog to remind us what we're up against.

Being Watched
Watching Out for You
Highlands
 

While the top two are the usual pro-surveillance posters intended to reassure but which actually carry a sort of creepy Orwellian 'Keep Calm and Carry On' feeling to them – the bottom picture is a baffling as it is saddening – and situated, as I am reliably informed by the photographer, in the Campsie Fells in Scotland, several miles from the nearest urban area.

By Dylan Sharpe

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Big Brother Watch Posted in CCTV
  • ThousandsOfMilesAway

    “several miles from the nearest urban area”
    Uhh? Whose is the frickin Sky dish then?

  • http://faustiesblog.blogspot.com FaustiesBlog

    We are watching *out* for you. Oh, good grief!

  • NeverSurrender

    These signs designed to do nothing more that intimidate everyone. They want us all to live in fear thus they believe we will be more compliant and less likely to resist. It is they who need watching not us.

  • ZacS

    I hope the bottom one is a joke… If it is it’s very well executed.

  • Purlieu

    The bottom one is a spoof – no power supply

  • Dr. Yes.

    It’s a solar-powered trig point. The sat feed is for GPS correlation. And the CCTV is on the summit behind, to prevent vandalism.

  • Brian

    Microphones in the countryside next perhaps? To eavesdrop picnic’s and subversive trysts?
    It really is the most banal and evil parody of 1984 I have yet seen.
    Of course, we need a camera to magically prevent vandalism. Don’t tread on the grass please.

  • Tobanem

    I took the photograph. The set up is an elaborate hoax, well installed with professional materials and workmanship. (Just note it was not me who set it up)!!
    There is no power supply, no trench leading away from the base of the trig point, no camera(s), and above all, the dish is a Sky domestic RECEIVING dish. Even if it was a transmitter, it would no longer be a CLOSED CIRCUIT TV system!!
    Nevertheless, the set up is a cynical parody of the real Big Brother State we are all living under everywhere else. Note, however, there are some REAL CCTV cameras out in the mountains and countryside!!

  • http://susanneumerski.blogspot.com/ Susanne Neslen

    Excellent spoof! But does sum up how ridiculous the CCTV camera situation is – just far too much of it and who is looking at the film in any event. I believe half if not more of these cameras do not work and were not intended to work – just a threat.
    However, I think it is also a 10 out of 10 for the excellent sense of humour of the person/people who did put this spoof together!

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