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CCTV mapping meeting monday maelstrom

chester wren | 28.11.2004 11:13 | Free Spaces | Repression | Technology

a meeting regarding an on-going CCTV mapping project in leeds is to be held at maelstrom this monday evening

Leeds is one of the most densely surveilled cities on the entire planet. The gaze of anyone who takes a short walk around the city centre with eyes tilted upward will quickly be met by a plethora of voyeur-machines. Some obvious, some hidden or disguised, all there to stifle and curb dissent and to manipulate us into a state of constant self-policing. Both the actuality and the threat of C.C.T.V. observation are used to maintain fear and inaction amongst the city’s insurgent elements. Therefore, a meeting for those who wish to be involved in an on-going C.C.T.V. mapping project with a view to creating a publicly accessible on-line map will be taking place at Maelstrom (the old post office, Hyde park corner, Leeds 6) on Monday 29th November at 8pm.

chester wren

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Excellent

28.11.2004 12:43

If Leeds and other major cities have their CCTV cameras mapped (perhaps the info can than be placed on the internet) the criminal element will know exactly where it is and is not safe to operate.

What are you thinking ???

well done


Full coverage

28.11.2004 14:03

Good luck peeps.

I'm glad that some folk are making a start on this. The project needs to be rolled out to the other cities before they make it a trrrist offence.

anglegrinder


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28.11.2004 20:00

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Statewatch News Online, 29 November 2004 (no: 46/04)
Full contents see:  http://www.statewatch.org/news

1. EU governments blackmail European Parliament into quick adoption of its
report on biometric passports
2. EU: Legality of biometrics Regulation questionned
3. UK: Civil Contingencies Act now law
4. UK: Serious Organised Crime and Police Bil
5. UNITED: A call against the creation of camps at European borders
6. Germany: Alleged police informant spies on social rights coalitions
7. Northern Ireland: INQUEST press release
8. Statewatch Observatory on EU Freedom of Information - Case Law: Updated
9. News in brief

1. EU GOVERNMENTS BLACKMAIL EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT INTO QUICK ADOPTION OF ITS
REPORT ON BIOMETRIC PASSPORTS

- the Council of the European Union (the 25 governments) has told the
parliament it can have full powers of "co-decision" after it adopts its
report on biometric passports

- how many national parliaments were re-consulted after the decision to
make fingerprinting mandatory?

- the costs are completely unknown and the "details" will be decided in a
secret committee

- the EU has no legal powers to introduce such a Regulation

see:
 http://www.statewatch.org/news/2004/nov/12biometric-passports-blackmail.htm

2. EU BIOMETRIC PASSPORTS AND MANDATORY FINGERPRINTING - ANALYSIS QUESTIONS
THE LEGALITY OF THE PROPOSED REGULATION

- "no powers conferred upon the EC by the EC Treaty, taken separately or
together, confer upon the EC the power to adopt the proposed Regulation"

see:  http://www.statewatch.org/news/2004/nov/11biometric-legal-analysis.htm

3. UK: CIVIL CONTINGENCIES ACT 2004 passes into law, see full-text:
 http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2004/20040036.htm
see also Statewatch critique of Bill:
 http://www.statewatch.org/news/2004/jan/12uk-civil-contingencies-bill-revised.htm

4. UK: SERIOUS ORGANISED CRIME AND POLICE BILL

Full-text:  http://www.statewatch.org/news/2004/nov/uk-socp-bill.pdf
Explanatory Note (link):
 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmbills/005/en/05005x--.htm

5. UNITED: A call against the creation of camps at European borders: It has
been signed by a lot of organisations from many countries, (link):
 http://www.no-camps.org/

6. Germany: Alleged police informant spies on social rights coalitions,
see:  http://www.statewatch.org/news/2004/nov/09hamburg.htm

7. Northern Ireland: Press release issued by a member of INQUEST's Advisory
Group, Professor Phil Scraton on: The death of of Annie Kelly in Mourne
House Womens Unit, Maghaberry Prison, Northern Ireland, see:
 http://www.statewatch.org/news/2004/nov/death-of-annie-kelly.pdf

8. Statewatch Observatory on EU Freedom of Information - Case Law: Updated,
see:  http://www.statewatch.org/caselawobs.htm

9. NEWS IN BRIEF
see:  http://www.statewatch.org/news/Newsinbrief.htm

- Paris: The lawfulness of detentions by the United States in Guantánamo
Bay: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (Council of Europe)
- The Human Rights Act has not lived up to expectations (Economist)
- Europol Director post still unfilled after five months
- Privacy International: Privacy and Human Rights 2004 - international
survey and country reports
- UK: Government looking at integrating ID card with health card
- EU: Commission 4th report on citizenship (COM 695, main report) and Annex
- Privacy International, press release on mobile cameras
- Netherlands: Vlaams Block branded racist
- UK: Body scanner at Heathrow airport reveals "graphic" naked images of
passengers

Resources for researchers: Statewatch searchable database:
 http://database.statewatch.org/search.asp

BOOKMARK

News online - full contents:
 http://www.statewatch.org/news
What's New on the Statewatch site:
 http://www.statewatch.org/whatsnew.htm
Statewatch European Monitor:
 http://www.statewatch.org/monitor/monitor.html
________________________________________________
Statewatch: Monitoring the state and civil liberties in Europe
PO Box 1516, London, N16 0EW. UK
tel: +44(0)20-8802-1882; fax: +44(0)20-8880-1727



________________________________________________
Statewatch: Monitoring the state and civil liberties in Europe
PO Box 1516, London, N16 0EW. UK
tel: +44(0)20-8802-1882; fax: +44(0)20-8880-1727

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