The director of the human rights organisation Liberty, said that the measure would serve only to prepare children for a lifetime of intrusive surveillance.
by Joanna Sugden
A head teacher has defended using CCTV to monitor the lavatories at his junior school.
Len Holman, the head of Angel Road Junior School in Norwich, said that pupils had requested the cameras, which cover the sink area, to protect the newly refurbished toilet blocks from vandalism.
Shami Chakrabarti, the director of the human rights organisation Liberty, said that the measure would serve only to prepare children for a lifetime of intrusive surveillance.
The cameras were installed at the request of the pupils’ school council, Mr Holman said. “There were some isolated incidents of vandalism, occurring mainly because pupils of course can’t be monitored by adults in toilet areas.
“The pupils saw that there was available space on the security system operating in the school and asked whether TV cameras could be installed to prevent further vandalism.”
Ms Chakrabarti told the BBC’s Today programme on Radio 4 that the state of privacy in Britain had reached a new low “if we now believe that the only way to teach 7 to 11-year-olds to respect property, to behave well, is to put closed-circuit television in the toilets”.
She added: “In other words, to teach them ‘behave well for fear of being caught’ and to prepare them for a lifetime of pretty intrusive surveillance.”
It emerged yesterday that a school in South London has installed CCTV in classrooms to avoid disputes between teachers and pupils and to prevent theft. The films will also be used in teacher training.
Stockwell Park High School is being rebuilt and as part of the overhaul a hi-tech surveillance system has been put in place. There are cameras in 28 classrooms as well as corridors and stairwells, and there are 40 more outside.
Mike Rush, the deputy head teacher, said that he envisaged the number of cameras doubling when the rest of the building was complete.
Aftermath News 
Oh yes–the people want it.
Yes, they make a bundle off the child toilette genre of kiddie porn. Sales have tripled recently…along with Roche’s Tamiflu sales.
I dont think CCTV should extend this far but a case study about a CCTV system at Oldham College and the benefits they have got out of it can be seen here http://controlware.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/the-oldham-college-benefit-from-advanced-ip-cctv-system-that-improves-security-and-safety/
controlware with your All-Seeing Eye avatar,
Peddling your Controlware Big Brother surveillance wares on this site is despicable, but instead of dumping you as spam, I will allow your phony leading sales pitch comment only so that others can see what kinds of dishonest money-grubbing blog-lurking creeps are involved in this sort of dirty business. Anyone who profits from the incremental (and global) destruction of human privacy, dignity and rights is about the lowest level bottom-feeder type of societal parasite.
For real facts about the Big Brother Surveillance Society readers see the corresponding category on this site.
For a good introduction to the reality of the topic at hand see the following articles. Especially the first two articles which prove that CCTV is practially useless for crime (much less terror, which is carried out by the government psyoppers anyway), and its only function is to put ordinary people under constant watch by Big Brother so that they will be oppressed by the knowledge that everything they think, do and say is under scrutiny by the corrupt meglomaniacal government, school systems and corporations and so forth. This being only one of a vast array of programs to condition and enslave the entirety of humanity which is virtually cut off by the controlled media from any real knowledge of what is being done to them. After every sphere of human activity is watched by smart cameras in public spaces, the next target is to go after the private spaces, ie the home. In essence, the Orwellian Telescreens that we were warned about will be the next stage.
As Aldous Huxley stated, people will be conditioned to “love their servitude” to the Corporate State. Welcome to Orwell’s nightmare on steroids and the elites’s (and their minions like controlware) wet dream.
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