Big brother will be watching you not only on streets but also in your drawing rooms.
The 'AP Public Safety (Measures) Enforcement Act, 2013 ratified in assembly on Tuesday ' makes it mandatory for all cable networks to provide monitoring and archives facility to authorities on same lines as private establishments
Already one could be watched and monitored at function halls, restaurants, ATM’s, Banks, roads , residential apartments, cinema halls, temples , colleges, Hospitals and also Railways stations and Bus stands through closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance cameras.
The hidden clause of the Act also makes it mandatory to cable operators to give link to authorities on a gradual basis to their customers in all 18 municipal corporations. Presently it is operative in Greater Hyderabad, Greater Visakhapatnam and
It is now mandatory on part of the managements of all establishments to provide access controls and closed-circuit television surveillance cameras at all entry-exit points and parking areas with a provision to store the video footage for 30 days. The state government, on its part, would be installing 5,000 CCTV cameras at all public places and junctions for surveillance.
