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Anti Federalist
03-10-2010, 10:32 PM
Outraged parents have hit out at a school in Birmingham after pupils discovered CCTV cameras in the school's toilets.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100309/tuk-parents-angry-over-cctv-in-school-to-45dbed5.html

Youngsters at Grace Academy in Chelmsley Wood claim they returned from half-term to find staff had installed the cameras without notifying them or their parents.

Some parents are furious at what they say is a "total invasion of privacy" and claim some pupils are so anxious about being watched they are refusing to use the facilities.

One mother whose teenage daughter attends the school is concerned the footage could fall into the wrong hands.

She told the Sunday Mercury: "She came home from school and told me security cameras had been installed in the girl's toilets but we didn't know anything about it.

"You would expect the school to have consulted parents first yet we received no information and no letters have been sent home explaining this decision."

Grace Academy claims the cameras only cover the sink areas and have not yet been activated.

School principal Terry Wales told Sky News: "It's to safeguard our youngsters, many schools are using cameras now.

"We had a parents' forum last night, we explained the arrangements and the parents were satisfied.

"We've found that when it comes to health and safety, children want to feel secure."

But privacy campaigners warned about the psychological effects of the feeling of being watched, even if cameras are not switched on.

Dylan Sharpe from Big Brother Watch told Sky News: "Children are entitled to privacy like anyone else.

"We're raising a generation of children accustomed to being constantly watched and monitored, whether cameras are switched on or not."

Grace Academy already has 26 CCTV cameras watching other parts of the school.

The incident is the latest row to erupt between schools and parents who are concerned about safeguarding their children's privacy.

Last year police were called to a school in Salford after parents were horrified to discover children had been filmed changing into their PE kit.

Although the footage was not misused, police seized the film after negotiating with the school.

In 2007 it was revealed schools had fingerprinted thousands of primary school children without their parent's consent.

The Department for Children, Schools and Families later ruled that if schools want to obtain and store biometric data from children, consent is not required from parents.

phill4paul
03-10-2010, 10:36 PM
tldr.... The "STATE" can do shit that you and I can be imprisoned for.

WE are ALL criminals. The state is sanctified.

TastyWheat
03-11-2010, 03:24 AM
I'm glad to see they're angry about something other than entitlement cuts.

DamianTV
03-11-2010, 06:14 AM
When it extends to putting a camera in your shower under the premise of "for your own good" because "most slip and falls in the shower happen IN THE SHOWER" so thats why they need a camera in there. Then it will get justified by every other fucking idiot on the planet that gets government run health care because they have a right since if said individual with a mandatory government shower camera refuses to be viewed by it, the risk incurred costs "everyone else" money by raising their taxes.

Next up: Biometric Monitoring for your heart rate via your Biometric Implant ID. This will get sold under the idea that a persons heart rate and blood pressure usually increase when they are about to commit a crime, but not state the fact that it also increases while wanking.

Cowlesy
03-11-2010, 08:27 AM
Britain is a great warning bell about what is going to happen here.

Micro-chipping trash-bins, cameras in bathrooms, and the people keep re-electing the same turds.

fisharmor
03-11-2010, 08:39 AM
Inner party members can turn the telescreen off.
But it's not safe to do so for more than half an hour, even for them.

I think that's where Orwell had it wrong.... the inner party will never be watched.