From the BBC News today, a story about the unwiring of (overabundant) surveillance cams.
In the UK there is one CCTV camera for every 14 people. If you are in London, you could be caught on camera up to 300 times a day. But the cameras are expensive, and once you have installed one, and laid all the wires back to base, it is fixed and cannot move. This means if a crime hotspot moves round the corner, you cannot see it. Westminster City Council in London have come up with a solution – CCTV cameras without wires, which broadcast their pictures back to base using the council's new wireless network.
