Time to alert the people who follow the Camera industry:

The use of CCTV cameras in bus shelters is extended across Teesside to combat vandalism.Cameras target bus stop vandals (BBC News)

Three ‘talking’ CCTV cameras costing ??15,000 each are installed in Swindon’s Railway Village.‘Talking’ cameras come to village (BBC News)

Criminal court judges yesterday banned the use of cameras, cell phones, personal digital assistants and audio recorders in the areas where criminal trials are held in the Allegheny County …Judges ban cell phones, cameras near criminal trials in courthouse (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

The Peoria Police Department is asking that all of its 250 Tasers be outfitted with video cameras in an effort to “prevent abuse” and to “disprove false allegations of misuse,” the police chief says.No Taser cameras for county police (The State Journal-Register)

FED-UP residents in Coventry are calling for CCTV cameras to stop gangs of youths who are terror-ising their neighbourhood.Longford residents call for security cameras (Coventry Evening Telegraph)

It’s true what they say: The camera changes everything. The cameras were rolling in Davies Symphony Hall on Wednesday night as Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony performed Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony for both the listeners in the hall and…Review: With cameras on, Symphony plays it safe with Shostakovich (San Francisco Chronicle)

A recent lawsuit against the city of Lufkin has several residents questioning whether the new red light cameras are constitutional.City officials say recent state legislation makes red light cameras legal (The Lufkin Daily News)

The robot cameras will soon invade Edwardsville City Hall.City to get remote cameras for city hall broadcasts (Edwardsville Journal)

The founder of GPS chip designer Sirf Technology believes some cameras next year will know where they’re taking photos, partly through new technology that can get a location fix faster.Coming in 2008: GPS-enabled cameras? (CNET)

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