You can already view networked cctv cameras using google, so this approach is not that difficult to implement.

On entering the small Somerfields, I noted the camera for perhaps the millionth time and decided this was my opportunity for my 15 minutes of fame. So I laid my bag on the floor and started a little dance whilst humming “Let’s Twist Again’ by Chubby Checker.

Five minutes later another customer entered and her look was enough to make me realise pensioners shouldn’t behave in such a manner so I stopped and continued my shopping sedately.

A few days later, again in the store, the manager approached me. “CCTV is not the X Factor you know he said.” “I wouldn’t know because I never watch it,” I replied.

From behind his back he took a box of Milk Tray and said I’d won the best CCTV performance of the month!

Now, if we all clogged up CCTV’s in that manner, not only would some special talent be found, their whole purpose would fade.

Sorry for clogging up your comments with useless information Charlotte.

Second, it’s not the ‘thin end of tge wedge’ because the state has no involvement. Charlotte makes a good point that it may give them ideas, but that’s not the same thing at all.

Third, it’s not a ‘privatised Stazi’ unless hiring security guards is a ‘privatised militia’. These are essentially company employees wPeking from home on commission. If they weren’t doing it from home they’d be doing it from an office somewhere. Bug difference.

Lastly, it’s more like ‘if you have something to fear, don’t go in the shop’. Unlike with the state, you actually have a choice on whether to enter a shop. You can take your business elsewhere if you disagree with their security practices. Shouting about this kind of thing will do you no favours whatsoever when trying to argue against the removal of civil liberties by the state, because it makes you look logically inconsistent. In a libertarian state you would expect these kind of security schemes to crop up all over the place.