It didn’t seem reasonable to go to London to write about CCTV, and not make a pilgrimage to quiet Islington in North London, where, at 27B Canonbury Square, George Orwell wrote 1984. Today, within 200 yards of the building, 32 CCTV cameras are in unblinking operation. The building, by the way, is for sale. I …
One of the side benefits of being the friend of Tim O’Toole, most especially when you are writing an article about CCTV, is that as Managing Director of the London Underground, Tim runs one the largest CCTV systems in the country. Presently he has nearly 10,000 cameras, and soon he will have 12,000. On Monday …
As luck would have it, my friend, college roommate and the best man at my wedding, Tim O’Toole, lives in London, and a more generous and better informed guide would be hard to imagine. On Sunday he and I visited the Tate Modern on the South Bank. Frankly, I was disappointed. I had heard that …
I went to London for the last week in January to report on the UK’s unbelievably extensive use of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) to watch out for (or simply wach) its citizens. On the first day I visited the flat of a friend who lives on Palace Green, which is part of the Crown Estates …