http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061102/tc_afp/britainsecuritycctv_061102140345

Britain is becoming a “surveillance society”, where CCTV cameras, credit card analysis and travel movements are used to track people’s lives minute by minute. [...] The nation has up to 4.2 million CCTV (closed-circuit television) cameras, or about one for every 14 people.