{"id":804,"date":"2006-09-30T12:34:16","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T11:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/09\/30\/new_statesman_on_spycams"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:38:11","slug":"new_statesman_on_spycams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/09\/30\/new_statesman_on_spycams","title":{"rendered":"New Statesman on &#8220;spycams&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"New Statesman - Watching you watching me\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/200610020022\">New Statesman &#8211; Watching you watching me<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brendan O&#39;Neill (of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/\">Spiked<\/a> fame) on the huge popularity of CCTV cameras in the UK, including a visit to a hidden &quot;spy bunker&quot; beneath London&#39;s Trocadero centre, in which there are cameras looking at numerous locations in the West End.  The UK has more than 20% of the world&#39;s CCTV cameras, even though research shows that CCTV often doesn&#39;t have a big impact on crime.  (As with other <em>New Statesman<\/em> articles, you can load it once, but it then goes pay-per-view.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Statesman &#8211; Watching you watching me Brendan O&#39;Neill (of Spiked fame) on the huge popularity of CCTV cameras in the UK, including a visit to a hidden &quot;spy bunker&quot; beneath London&#39;s Trocadero centre,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil_liberties"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-cY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42279,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/42279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}