Q Security Cameras watching you!

A newspaper says that the government have developed a miniature camera that can be made for £0.10 each. They intend attaching these to pigeons so that they have a complete surveillance network across the country. Trials began this week in Edinburgh and by next year the whole of the UK could be monitored 24/7 by a network of 5 million cameras. This is an abuse of our right to privacy! How can we stop this going ahead?

* If we all buy cats it might help stop it

Bill Butt

* Well you guys in the UK have lots of pidgeons,,,,although the picture quality will be lousy, due to the fog and rain...  Dont do anything illegal...simple

Polittically Wrong

* OK that settles it I am going into business selling tinfoil hat thought protectors. And anti pigeon repellent.

Sparrohawk

* Why would you want to? It would protect you, crime would go down, and unless you plan on picking your nose in public, there is no logical reason to be offended by it. How can you even have an expectation of privacy in public? Just don't open your windows and let pigeons in your bedroom!

Lesley M

* Since when did nature become our worst enemy? I love pigeons despite all their poop and blarney, however this is downright dastardly!  What about a pigeon's rights, and how it will live, mate and eat. How will it be affected? Forget us humans, but think of Pidggeee.

JennyLee

* In the states we've heard about the UK's version of Big Brother. How is it possible that your government can proceed with these activities? why does the voting public allow it? People here went crazy when it was found out the government tapped people's phone under the guise of monitoring suspected terrorists.

AmyVee

* If you complain about 5 millions camera all over the UK, you should know that in Beijing they have "officially" 3 million cameras... So you still have a long way to go to match those countries... Also, this is a price to pay to protect lifes due to the terrorist activities. Also you must understand that it is in their national interest to make future terrorists believes that they are so many cameras that could observed them, thus acting as a deterrent for future attemps... At least for a while. But you know, their is technology already existing that protect people from getting taken into picture. It is a pendant, called Eagle eye, and sell to the US army officer and others, it emit a laser on the camera lenses thus prohibiting the lense to capture the image... Cost a lot, but the concept can reach those terrorists sooner than expected...

CentryNox