The average UK citizen might be caught on CCTV 6 times a day, but the number drastically increases when you wander into a metropolitan area.There are an estimated 4.2 million CCTV cameras in the UK. This means that for every 14 people, there is a camera.
A more worrying way to put it is, Britain accounts for 1% of the world's population but 20% of the world's CCTV cameras. (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23390407-details/UK+has+1%25+of+world's+population+but+20%25+of+its+CCTV+cameras/article.do)
It has been suggested that the average Londoner is caught on CCTV around 300 times a day. We are spied on more often and more comprehensively than people living in totalitarian dictatorships. With our privacy and civil liberties being systematically violated on such a regular basis, and the government enlarging the scope of data it collects about us, can anyone really claim that we live in a free country?
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