By Selwyn Duke

New York City officials have announced
that “it’s only a matter of time” before parks throughout the Big Apple are
equipped with surveillance cameras. Washington, D.C., police are now going to monitorlive footage from some of their cameras (those in the highest-crime areas),
joining other American localities that embrace the practice.

This isn’t unusual in the Western world. London is notorious for its “Ring of Steel,”
a city-wide network of 500,000 peering eyes. No wonder 1984 was set in
England.

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