The City Has Eyes: CCTV in London

If, like me, you’re a Yank, living on this side of the Atlantic you have an expectation of privacy when you go out to stroll the streets of your favorite large American City. You don’t expect cameras to be watching.[i] Londoners KNOW they are. London ranks as the number one “most spied-on city” in the…

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The London City Police—Protecting One Square Mile

There are two Londons. Most people don’t realize that when they pop into the British capital as tourists. They aren’t aware, as they race from the Tower to St. Paul’s Cathedral, from Christopher Wren’s Monument to the Great Fire to Harrods, that they are crossing and recrossing the boundaries between two independent Londons. Sometimes called…

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