BBC NEWS | UK | CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime' : "'Billions of pounds has been spent on kit, but no thought has gone into how the police are going to use the images and how they will be used in court. It's been an utter fiasco: only 3% of crimes were solved by CCTV."
Well dur.
If you replace any of the hi-tech solutions we've been presented with during the past 20 years - it's always been a fiasco. It's always cost quite stupidly and scarily high amounts of money and never done whatever it was brought into do properly. Why's that? Well, I'm guessing it's because computer and tech. salesmen are very good at selling their snake oil solutions and politicians are - bless 'em - woefully ignorant when it comes to technology. It's all so much 'magic boxes' and 'fairy dust' to them.
110 major computer failures hit NHS.
The child support agency's messy history.
Not to mention the recent hoo-ha where Government departments have been rather cavalier with the public's personal information.
And now the MI5 fancies tracking everyone's movements - all in the name of preventing terrorism of course. Despite it being, by anyone's account, still a very rare thing.
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