Proposition
CCTV is always watching you. In the
city of London, there are more than a million of those closed circuit cameras.
They are invading our privacy, our freedom. So we, the proposition, believe
that CCTV is a great threat to our freedom. First, I would like to summarize
what our members have mentioned. We are greatly worried that CCTV can lead to
misuse of information and can invade our privacy. Also, we proved that CCTV is
not effective. Here in the debate, there were two major clashes. The first one
is the importance of privacy. We believe privacy should be valued more. As we
have said before, our identity is a thing that makes us. Without it, we lose
what our selves are. The opposition rebut that the greater good, safety, for
everyone is more important but here's the thing.... A group is made of
individuals. Invading one's privacy is not just invading one person's. It's
invading everyone's. Especially in public places this might happen so often and
it will make us bare out with other people. Invasion of privacy is also
dangerous because it is information that we don’t want others to know. With our
personal information, the criminals can checkout money out of bank and sign-up
for some ridiculous sites that we don’t want. I bet nobody wants his or her
money stolen right? CCTVs can get us pressing password on our phone and use
them for awful causes. This leads into our second argument, the misuse of
information. The opposition can say that misuse of information is just a case
of unique event. However, we would like to suggest how humans’ ambitions reach
high. If they want to commit something, they have will power to do so. So we,
the proposition believe that these possible criminals may be on the seats of
security personals and may be watching you. Add to that, I want you, ladies and
gentlemen to be aware that the greater the number of CCTVs are, you can say
that the government don't trust you and this matters because this means there
is no trust between people. This is very important. Now here’s another topic
that we argued about, effectiveness. The opposition just said that the CCTVs
can provide safety and can prevent some crimes. However, we have the statistic
that explains that CCTV is not effective. According to the Telagraph, in London
only one crime is solved by 1000 camera. The article claims that CCTV doesn't
really help solve many crimes. It also explains CCTVs are not cost effective.
Every case cost about 20,000 Euros, which may be over the price of the sole
case. Now this is the second clash----CCTVs are not effective. In addition to
its ineffectiveness in catching and solving crimes, CCTVs can only watch
certain areas, and therefore can create balloon effects. The government can
install cameras in one place but they wouldn't be able to place on in another. This
means that if crimes occur less in certain areas, the same amount will increase
in the other. Also, it can't prevent many crimes. CCTVs are waste of money and
it goes against our freedom to use money, which we pay for taxes. In
conclusion, we, the proposition believes that CCTV is a threat to our freedom
and we have won the debate.
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