Marie Van Brittan Brown

1966

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Marie Van Brittan Brown, born on January 7, 1922, was an African American nurse and inventor from Queens, New York City. In 1966, at the age of 44, she came up with the brilliant idea to create a unique home surveillance device with a closed circuit television security system.

CCTV stands for closed-circuit television.

3 Ways to Hack CCTV Cameras (and How to Prevent It from Happening to You) Though advances have been made in recent years, many CCTV cameras remain troublingly vulnerable to attack. Once inside, they can use remote access to watch the world through your cameras—or potentially even take control of them.

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China already has the world’s largest surveillance network; it deploys over half of all surveillance cameras in use around the world.

London has the third highest number of CCTV cameras of any city in the world – and is the only one in the West in the global top 20, new figures reveal. The capital has 627,727 cameras for 9.3 million residents – the equivalent of 67.5 cameras per 1,000 people, data compiled by Comparitech shows.

A report published by the British Security Industry Association (BSIA) estimates that the total number of CCTV cameras in the UK stands at somewhere between 4 million and 6 million. That’s around 7.5 cameras for every 100 people in the country – the third-highest total on the planet behind the US and China.

Research by CCTV.co.uk concludes that in London there is now 1 CCTV Camera for every 13 people, meaning there are now 691,000 CCTV Cameras in London (2020/21) London is often called the CCTV capital of the world, and for good reason.

1974- Surveillance cameras are first used for monitoring traffic after being set up on the major roads running in and out of London. 1975- Four London Underground stations have CCTV installed and systems are first used for monitoring crowds at football matches.

In the UK, video surveillance cameras are used to monitor public behaviour or movement. Footage captured on CCTV permits post-incident evidence gathering, forensic analysis, and the early identification of ‘hostile reconnaissance’ such as the planning phase of terrorist attacks.

When it comes to your personal CCTV footage, police can get access to it but it must be in accordance with Section 19 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (1984). This states that they can have it if they believe “it is evidence in relation to an offence which he is investigating or any other offence”.

If you have a CCTV security system installed, you must have it monitored. You can check the recorded video later, but for real-time surveillance to keep your home and business protected, it is advised to opt for professional CCTV monitoring services.

number of reasons: Monitoring public areas to detect incidents and to co- ordinate police responses. CCTV is also used as an aid for enforcing exclusion orders (where an offender is barred from an area) – see box opposite. Recording events for use as evidence and to inform investigations.

Police may request CCTV footage for a variety of reasons that may not be at all to do with you or your property. Initially you will be asked to supply your CCTV evidence. However, if you refuse the police do have various options to get the footage should they so wish such as getting a search warrant.

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