We are rapidly becoming a 'surveilled' society - and now they seem to have crossed the last line ... ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES, folks ... need more proof than this ... ?

you realize that the story is in the UK, right?

What I am wondering is why they think a bunch of children are such a danger to society they need to have cameras on them in their schools including the bathrooms.I don't think prisons even have cameras in the bathrooms.This sounds more like a excuse for a peeping Tom to get his kicks by peeping on children as apposed to security concerns.I also don't think cameras lower crime at all.Washington DC has cameras everywhere you look and they have some of the highest crime in the nation.

I don't think security cameras are a bad thing.Like I said before I don't think they lower crime but they are excellent proof in court cases where they caught the person on camera doing the crime.I think this bathroom story is part of a growing trend of people losing all kinds of privacy all in the name of security.I also know once someone has the balls to do something like this other countries follow lead.Next we will read the same story from Australia,Canada,and then the United states.But like I said before I really feel like this has nothing to do with security and more about someone getting his or her rocks off by watching what is happening in the girls bathroom.I know they said the cameras were just watching the sink area but I'm sure it was probably most of the bathroom excluding the stalls.

You might say what's the harm in that?Young girls often spill drinks or food on their shirts and may need to take them off to wash a spot off of them.They may have to change their shirts or pants for what ever reason.Female bathrooms typically have tampon machines in them and I'm sure they don't want someone knowing they are buying tampons out of the machine.Many other reasons I dont need to list.

Do I even need to mention the multi billion dollar porn industry?I am sure a website showing just school girls in the bathroom putting on make up would be a multi million dollar website.Once those cameras were in and once the girls were used to them it probably wouldn't be too hard to adjust one of them to looking into the stall of the toilet.

How would you feel if you saw a camera in a public restroom?

Id use the private stalls. Id be upset if cameras were THERE, but not in the sinks area.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100309/tuk-parents-angry-over-cctv-in-school-to-45dbed5.html

Some parents are furious at what they say is a "total invasion of privacy" and claim some pupils are so anxious about being watched they are refusing to use the facilities.

One mother whose teenage daughter attends the school is concerned the footage could fall into the wrong hands.

She told the Sunday Mercury: "She came home from school and told me security cameras had been installed in the girl's toilets but we didn't know anything about it.

"You would expect the school to have consulted parents first yet we received no information and no letters have been sent home explaining this decision."

Grace Academy claims the cameras only cover the sink areas and have not yet been activated.

School principal Terry Wales told Sky News: "It's to safeguard our youngsters, many schools are using cameras now.

"We had a parents' forum last night, we explained the arrangements and the parents were satisfied.

"We've found that when it comes to health and safety, children want to feel secure."

But privacy campaigners warned about the psychological effects of the feeling of being watched, even if cameras are not switched on.

Dylan Sharpe from Big Brother Watch told Sky News: "Children are entitled to privacy like anyone else.

"We're raising a generation of children accustomed to being constantly watched and monitored, whether cameras are switched on or not."

Grace Academy already has 26 CCTV cameras watching other parts of the school.

The incident is the latest row to erupt between schools and parents who are concerned about safeguarding their children's privacy.

Last year police were called to a school in Salford after parents were horrified to discover children had been filmed changing into their PE kit.

Although the footage was not misused, police seized the film after negotiating with the school.

In 2007 it was revealed schools had fingerprinted thousands of primary school children without their parent's consent.

The Department for Children, Schools and Families later ruled that if schools want to obtain and store biometric data from children, consent is not required from parents.

We are rapidly becoming a 'surveilled' society - and now they seem to have crossed the last line ... ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES, folks ... need more proof than this ... ?

you realize that the story is in the UK, right?

Yeah, let's vote the Brits out in November!!!