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I was moving through the terrain of inner urban sprawl, a geography of sensory deprivation, a zone of duel carriageways and petrol stations, business parks, and sign posts to Heathrow, CCTV cameras crouched over warehouse gates, the traffic signals presided like small-minded deities over their deserted crossroads; the entire defenceless landscape was waiting for a crime to be committed. J G Ballard, Kingdom Come 2006
I don’t like it [CCTV]. It’s a violation of the work space. Breaking Bad s4e3: Open House, Walter to Jesse, AMC 2011
Gus kept cameras on us at the lab and the laundry. Breaking Bad s5e1: Blood Money, Water to Gus
The Game Plan is to literally put CCTV on every street corner, on every pathway corner, all around the world. They’re going to focus obviously on the UK. The UK is almost a test ground ... If they can introduce this stuff with impunity in the UK, then they can basically do it anywhere ... In the major cities you’ve got cameras on every street corner. This is the most surveilled country in the world. Something ridiculous like about 80% of the world’s CCTV cameras are in the UK right now. They use facial recognition software. Ian R Crane, interview Old Police Station Liverpool 2008
We are in the Soviet States of Great Britain. We have more cameras in this country than in the rest of the western world put together. We are the most surveilled state on the planet. I mean, what is this all about? It’s about keeping track. And the facial recognition software is being perfected; it’s going out to other police forces. You know, you’ve got cameras on the road, cameras down the streets, cameras in pedestrian precincts ... It’s coming. It’s absolutely coming. Ian R Crane, New World Order lecture Liverpool 2008
All of the CCTV cameras at all four of the blast sites were not working that day. RichPlanet.net 7/7 Ripple Effect II part II
With around six million CCTV in the UK, we are the most watched nation on Earth. Operating 24/7 they’re catching more and more criminals in the act. Nick Wallis, Guns and Gangs: Caught on Camera, Channel 5 2015
London: an army of over 400,000 CCTV cameras. ibid.
CCTV is helped the police put criminals behind bars. ibid.
London has been called the World’s gang capital. ibid.
There are over 700 deaths or major injuries on Britain’s railways ever year. ibid.
We’ve got more CCTV cameras per capita than any other country. Mark Thomas Comedy Product s5e1, Channel 4 2001
Monaco has one of the most extensive and sophisticated CCTV systems in the world. Inside Monaco: Playground of the Rich II, BBC 2020
The Chinese government has been using smart technology for the past two decades to create an increasingly monitored and closely controlled society. A grid-based system has been rolled out nationwide to collect data and ‘manage’ social disruptions at the grassroots level. Storyville: Total Trust: Surveillance State, captions, BBC 2024
We must mobilise the public to actively participate in security matters. ibid. enthusiast
Our phones and apps are monitored. They make changes to our profiles. ibid. critic
Another 400 million cameras are expected to be installed in the next three years. ibid. enthusiast