Britain Spies the Most

If you are in Great Britain and you feel like you are being watched, it’s because you are. There is one CCTV camera for every 14 people. In a perfect but eerie “reality imitating art,” there are over 30 cameras with in shouting distance of George Orwell’s home (the author of 1984 - the “big brother” book).

It seems to me that this could be too much of a good thing. With ever success that the government has (catching criminals, getting leads, and other more preventative actions) it seems that more cameras pop up. What started out as a deterrent to crime is quickly becoming the eye of “big brother” aiming to keep the citizens in line and on track with the government’s ways.

I would hate to be they guy who has the job of monitoring all these cameras. Keeping an eye on 4.2 million CCTV cameras has to be mind boggling (not to mention the amount of space the screens take up).

Maintaining order and peace is important. There just has to be a better way of going about it. Is the public use of money best spent spying on the every day lives of ordinary citizens in the hopes that MAYBE something bad might happen?