Almost every bank cash machine in the country uses CCTV to record you making your transaction - bet you can't see the camera !

The UK has more CCTV cameras per head of population than ANY other country.
About one camera for every 14 people and about 40 times as many camcorders !

Home Office guidelines recommend a minimum 120% size image for identification by CCTV to be permissible in court - this means that you should provide a view (of at least) from the head to the knees to outwit the arguments of a sharp barrister.

British government funded the growth of the world's largest CCTV network, had a total budget of £420m

Harrods London store has in excess of 500 CCTV cameras installed.

The largest CCTV system in the World is at Singapore Airport - 3,000+ cameras !!!!

£30M of funding for NHS CCTV schemes is soon to be fast tracked following recent unfortunate incidents in NHS hospitals.

Croydon has more CCTV cameras than New York

It is estimated that there are in excess of 4 million CCTV cameras in the UK. You are likely to be caught on camera 300 times a day.

London's Metropolitan Police Force have approximately 200,000 cameras installed around the capital

If the blossoming of CCTV networks proceeds without proper checks and regulations we will, one day, find ourselves in a society where surveillance exceeds the nightmare level described in Orwell's seminal account of a totalitarian society, 1984