Apologies Cory but the tone was distinctly American and the sloppy nature of the piece only goes to promote these incorrect attitudes to CCTV.

*Sigh* America's point of view on the UK CCTV debate is so dumb it's almost not worth commenting on. But here we go...

Firstly, this will never take off because secretly the other supermarkets will never take up the scheme because of a. the privacy issues and b. the fact that Budgens has in one fell swoop lost all of it's underage customers plus many more who simply do not want their photograph taken.

But on a wider note. The way America views the CCTV system in the UK is simplistic at the very least. It would serve you better to be more suspicious of your government than you are of the UK's approach to CCTV.

In short the thousands of CCTV cameras that photograph us everyday and follow us as we move around the cities are not networked together, are often terrible quality and are rarely monitored live. CCTV is only valuable to the Police after the fact and most of the footage that is recorded is simply overwritten within a few days.

This suspicious attitude that we are monitored, watched and our movements recorded in some file is a very generous assumption but I can assure you we are no where nearly that organized.

Instead you should look to your own government's stealthy passing of bills that give them the right to tap your phone, and monitor you in far more underhand ways, all without your knowledge. As well as fly you out of the country to torture you, keep you locked up illegally and waste your hard earned money stealing other peoples countries, while your poor die without health care.

So come on BoingBoing, try journalism instead of this nonsense.