onitored by a camera. People feel like they\’re being watched every step they take. Some parts of their lives aren\’t meant to be recorded for people in high places to see. Everyone has a private life and they won’t want anyone watching them or worst case scenario recording them.

Furthermore, the footage recorded by the cameras can get in the wrong hands and be used as a form of blackmail, back in the late 1990s an officer in the police department abused the cctv footage he had. He used it to spy on a gay club during the night and blackmailed the married patrons of the gay club using information gathered by using their vehicle registration plates. Furthermore, another form of spying is voyeurism. The Dictionary describes Voyeurism as the practice or act of gaining sexual gratification by looking at sexual objects secretly. In a nutshell the lack of control on the cctv cameras is a major factor and there haven\’t been a solution to resolve that issue.

Another disadvantage of the CCTV camera is that its effectiveness has not been proven, criminals now use the cctv cameras to attract the attention of the public instead of being deterred by it.

Last but not the least, cctv cameras are expensive to buy and maintain especially on a large scale. In the UK alone the cctv systems cost more than £300 million from the year 1999 to 2001 The public have argued as to why money should be spent on something that is not enough to prevent crimes from happening. For technology that is used to infringe on the rights of the public it shouldn’t have money pumped into maintaining it.