Georgetown : Presidential Candidate of A Partnership for National Unity (A.P.N.U), Brigadier (ret) David Granger has issued a warning that Guyana is fast becoming a ‘surveillance state’ under the People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration. Mr. Granger referred to the recent introduction of the Interception of Communications Act and the implementation of the closed-circuit television cameras system in Georgetown.
President Bharrat Jagdeo had told Annual Police Officers Conference that there would be widespread use of closed-circuit television cameras in the new National Intelligence Centre. He said that “The police will have available to them all of these images [from the CCTV cameras]. They will be able to analyse the data coming in and then create actionable intelligence not only to solve crime but also to prevent crime.”
A.P.N.U is concerned that the state's capacity to monitor and detain people is a dangerous thing. According to APNU, citizens want to know whether the introduction of the CCTV system will be used for “spying on citizens of Guyana, including the political opponents of the government, under the guise of increasing its security efforts?”
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