LONDON: Students across the UK are being watched by an astonishing 100,000 spy cameras, with the surveillance devices installed even inside the bathrooms.
CCTV surveillance has been set up in playgrounds, classrooms and even toilets and changing rooms. The average secondary school has 24 cameras and an academy 30. Some schools have a camera for every five children in the name of controlling violence, vandalism and theft, the Daily Mail reported.
In a development, that has already provoked outrage, more than 200 schools have CCTV operating in changing rooms or toilets.
The extent of surveillance was made public in a report by Big Brother Watch, a watchdog group. It found there are 106,710 spy cameras in secondary schools and academies across England and Wales - a quarter of the total used to monitor all of London's streets.
Big Brother Watch questioned how so many cameras have been set up without any check, what the recorded pictures were being used for, and who was watching them.
"Schools need to come clean about why they are using these cameras and what is happening to the footage, said watchdog director Nick Pickles.
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