Glasgow … And The Onset of Big Brother?
The balance between privacy and the rights of society to protect itself
Well, it has finally arrived. First there were CCTV cameras around our cities, and now, in Glasgow, there are 70 new CCTV cameras which will automatically detect “intrusions” and also track and identity faces. This comes after the Scottish Football Association (SFA) said that they wanted to investigate facial recognition at football matches:
Perhaps I missed the debate on this, or has there been no debate at all? Well, we only know about the new cameras through a freedom of information request. This comes on the back of the disastrous Named Persons Act in Scotland, and which completely failed to inform parents about the actual operation of the system, and in the usage of cyber kiosks — and which were a nice name for a method of spying on your mobile phone:
