[privacy] CCTV 'Mission Creep' again.

Alex Eckelberry AlexE at sunbelt-software.com
Thu Aug 16 12:13:31 CDT 2007


Well, I remember the article saying it was CCTV. 

And this article mentions it was CCTV. 

http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news?articleid=3101950

Sure looks like mission creep to me.   

-----Original Message-----
From: Florian Weimer [mailto:fw at deneb.enyo.de] 
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:42 AM
To: Kevin McAleavey
Cc: privacy at whitestar.linuxbox.org
Subject: Re: [privacy] CCTV 'Mission Creep' again.

* Kevin McAleavey:

> But NOW we've got an interesting story if the beeb published one thing

> and then revised it without an "editor's note" saying "corrects this 
> specific detail" or other "marginal thinking." Be quite interested 
> indeed though if the "mission creep" is for real. We're supposed to be

> spotting terrorists, not village idjits.
> (grin)

The editorial standards call for unmark revisions of articles.  It's not
really a BBC-specific matter, but the BBC is pretty good at this
game:

<http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004665.html>
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