Don't Cross the Crossing Guards

The surveillance society on yonder side of the Atlantic keeps expanding at an ever more relentless pace. The latest? U.K. crossing guards carrying always-on video cameras.

[They] are using a hi-tech weapon to protect themselves against the scourge of angry drivers. Video cameras are being built into their poles and will be worn on their heads so incidents of "lollipop rage" can be recorded and used as evidence to prosecute motorists. The cameras are time coded and mounted in both directions, so that illegal behaviour happening behind them will also be caught on film.

[via Gizmodo]

Comments

[Tom G]

Something just occurred to me:

In addition to the obvious privacy and liberty attack going on in Britain under CCTV rule, has anybody tried to get a COST estimate ?
(not gov't original claim, but a current one)
All those spy eyes must cost a few pounds.