'On Tuesday, Taser will announce a camera, a half-ounce unit about the size of a cigar stub that clips on to a collar or sunglasses of an officer and can record two hours of video during a shift.' '“Once video is up in the cloud, why not photos? Why not all sorts of evidence? It will make it easier for different agencies to collaborate.”'

"The key issue, as hinted at in the (somewhat facetious) examples above, is that the Metropolitan Police is a huge organisation: it has more than 35,000 officers and PSCOs, plus more than 13,000 civilian staff. Even trivial amounts of spending per officer quickly adds up." On spending at scale.

"On Tuesday 21 June 2011 six photographers were assigned different areas of the City to photograph. Some used tripods, some went hand held, one set up a 5 x 4. All were instructed to keep to public land and photograph the area as they would on a normal day." "All six photographers were stopped on at least one occasion. Three encounters led to police action."

"A network of citizen crimewatchers will be given the chance of winning up to £1,000 by monitoring CCTV security cameras over the internet." Full of ranting comments, presumably not from people who've read David Brin's classic Wired piece, the Transparent Society (or who just wish the CCTV cameras would go away, which seems unlikely to happen).

Alec Jeffreys calls for the DNA database to be cut down to size. I wonder if the headline was deliberately playing on SQL's syntax, though.

As Chris says, not a bad start. Nice use of glomming together wards at different zoom levels.

A nice, mainstream, piece on the London police poster campaign and the general climate around photography. "To some [...] photographing strangers might seem “odd” [even though they] own a print of Robert Doisneau's Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville"

I couldn't believe it when I saw the "Photos" ad on the back page of one of the evening freesheets on Tuesday. "Terrorists ... take photos of CCTV cameras" So do ordinary (well, only slightly abnormal) people...