It turns out that many pupils are monitored by CCTV cameras as often as inmates in prisons and passengers at airports. "Most schools in the UK are probably breaking the law by failing to alert students to the scores of cameras capturing their conversations and movements," said The Guardian, reporting on a new study. Salford University researcher Emmeline Taylor examined surveillance practices at 24 comprehensives in north-west England. She concluded vague legislation had allowed schools to become testbeds for the latest surveillance technologies, thus "habituating young people to accept a heightened level of security for increasingly mundane activities, such as borrowing a book from the school library".
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