1913: surreptious photography of imprisoned suffragettes begins.

1949: publication of George Orwell's 1984, which is set in London.

1960: Metropolitan Police use two temporary cameras in Trafalgar Square to monitor crowds attracted to the arrival of the Thai royal family.

5 November 1960: Metropolitan Police use two temporary cameras in Trafalgar Square to monitor "Guy Fawkes Day" activity.

1961: installtion of video surveillance system at a London Transport train station.

1964: Liverpool police experiment with four covert CCTV cameras in the city's center.

1965: British Railways installs cameras to watch tracks near Dagenham that had been vandalized.

1967: Photoscan (business) markets video surveillance systems to retail outlets as a means of deterring and catching shoplifters.

October 1968: Metropolitan Police use temporary cameras in Grosvenor Square to monitor anti-Vietnam War demonstrators.

1969: Metropolitan Police install permanent cameras in Grosvenor Square, Whitehall and Parliament Square. Total number of cameras nationally: 67.

1974: installation of video surveillance systems to monitor traffic on the major arterial roads in and through London.

1975: installation of video surveillance system in four London Underground train stations.

1975: use of video surveillance systems at soccer matches begins.

1984: installation of surveillance cameras at major rallying points for public protest in central London. Picketers surveilled during miners' strike.

August 1985: installation of street-based video surveillance system in Bournemouth, a south coast seaside resort.

1987: use of video surveillance systems at parking garages owned by local authorities begins.

1988: installation of video surveillance systems at "council estates" run by local authorities.

1989: civil rights group Liberty publishes Who's watching you? video surveillance in public places.

1992: installation of street-based video surveillance system in Newcastle (a major northern city). The system in Newcastle is closed-circuit television (CCTV) that uses microwaves (an open circuit) to link to the city's main police station.

1992: use of speed cameras and red-light enforcement cameras on the national road network begins.

August 1993: bombing of Bishopsgate in London by the IRA leads to the construction of the "Ring of Steel" around the City (London financial district). Measures include street-based surveillance cameras.

1994: central government (the Home Office) publishes CCTV: Looking Out for You. Prime Minister John Major states: "I have no doubt we will hear some protest about a threat to civil liberties. Well, I have no sympathy whatsoever for so-called liberties of that kind." Between 1994 and 1997, the Home Office spends a total of 38 million pounds of CCTV schemes.

July 1994: use of covert video surveillance systems at automatic teller machines (ATMs) begins.

1996: government spending on CCTV accounts for more than three-quarters of total crime prevention budget.

August 1996: all of England's major cities except Leeds have video surveillance systems in their city centers.

10 May 1997: public demonstration against surveillance cameras in Brighton, organized by South Downs Earth First!.

July 1997: London police announce installation of surveillance camera system that automatically reads, recognizes and tracks automobiles by their license plates.

October 1998: use of face recognition software in the London Borough of Newham begins.

November 2006: There are up to 4.2m CCTV cameras in Britain - about one for every 14 people.

I'll vote for him! (for least qualified to hold a civil servant position, including that of Prime Minister)

That picture is very telling.

The poster could easily be an illustration for George Orwell's book "1984".

"Big Brother is watching you."

George Orwell worked for Tavistock.

Something was going on there.

Thanks for the Post....
A little parallelism over here in the states.
NYPD’s ‘stop-and-frisk’ searches increased over 600 percent under Bloomberg
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/15/nypds-stop-and-frisk-searches-increased-over-600-percent-under-bloomberg/

The NYPD detained 684,330 people under a stop-and-frisk procedure, a 600 percent increase from Bloomberg’s first year in office in 2002. At least nine out of 10 people stopped were innocent, with 87 percent of them either black or Latino.

I also like how Private Corporations are now going to take over the Prison System, soon will have Private Police agencies, I mean hell we have Politician bought by Private corporations. Over here in NC mental health is run by Private Corporations. Brilliant!

Geez, just the title of that video is funny, and I haven't even watched it yet.