New York to get 500 new CCTV cams

Some how this is a major deal, yet in the UK we wouldn't even notice 500 new cams being put up. There are an estimated 10-15 million of them in this country, compared to 38,000 in the whole of France! New York City has about the same number as Colchester has, with only 1000 covering their whole subway system. In Britain we've some how accepted CCTV as a good thing and don't care about our privacy being invaded.

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