The CCTV New Year's Gala ()— a yearly special program for the Chinese New Year — is the most-watched CCTV programme.

The development of centralized networks of CCTV cameras watching public areas — linked to computer databases of people's pictures and identity ( biometric data ), able to track peoples ' movements throughout the city, and identify who they have been with — has been argued by some to present a risk to civil liberties.

So are the top officials at local conventional television stations in mainland China — nearly all of which are restricted to broadcasting within their own province or municipality — that receive CCTV broadcasts.

Some reports suggest Haznawi was pulled aside for screening while others claim there is no record of whether any of the four were screened ; the lack of CCTV cameras at the time has compounded the problem.

Some aircraft are equipped with CCTV cameras, so the pilots can monitor the cabin activity.

Some software integrates with CCTV to monitor the actions of workers in retail environments.

Some non-Internet forms include telephone, fax, PDA, SMS text messaging, MMS, wireless networks and services, Bluetooth, CCTV, tracking systems, RFID, biometric identification, road traffic management and regulatory enforcement, identity cards, smart cards and other Near Field Communication applications ; polling station technology ( where non-online e-voting is being considered ), TV and radio-based delivery of government services ( e. g., CSMW ), email, online community facilities, newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, online chat, and instant messaging technologies.

Some tower blocks have been either demolished or improved, not least with introduction of concierge or CCTV security systems.

In addition to the wide range of radio frequencies used, fire chiefs often need to communicate via landlines and send and receive information via satellite links and CCTV of the ongoing situation.

Most hostels offer some sort of system for safely storing valuables, and an increasing number of hostels offer private lockers ; there are other things to consider as well when choosing a safe hostel, such as whether they have a guest curfew, uphold fire codes, 24-hour security, and CCTV.

Eircom's PhoneWatch subsidiary purports to provide monitored burglar alarms, fire alarms, CCTV systems, and medical alert devices.

Other aminities include a 100 % standby generators ; lightning protection and grounding systems ; structured cabling system for high-speed transmission of data, video and voice communications ; provision for fiber optic telecommunications system ; advanced building management system ; CCTV monitoring at strategic locations controlled at the central command station on a 24-hour basis ; fire alarm and automatic fire sprinkler systems ; dual water supply with water treatment facility ; underground and overhead water reservoir ; 2 individually controlled Air Handling Units per floor with alloted air condition load for after-office use ; a communications tower ; voice and smoke evacuation systems ; and a gondola system for building exterior maintenance.

VicRoads also operates a network of CCTV cameras across the entire length of the freeway and abnormal traffic movements by vehicles are reported to Victoria Police.

; Evidence gathering CCTV: Police vehicles can be fitted with video cameras used to record activity either inside or outside the car.

These are mobile CCTV and patrolling vehicles and the Peugeot Expert van was generally the vehicle used, up until late 2008 where they started to be replaced by Ford Transit Connect vans.

All State Transit vehicles are now fitted with digital CCTV surveillance with five cameras aboard each bus to improve security and deter vandalism and anti-social behaviour.

' Man-traps ' are also used, where a hallway leading into the data centre has a door at each end and both cannot be open simultaneously ; visitors can been seen via CCTV and are manually authorized to enter.

There is still much research to be done to determine the effectiveness of CCTV cameras on crime prevention before any conclusions can be drawn.

A CCTV camera and dashboard monitor can make reversing a vehicle safer, if it allows the driver to observe objects or people not otherwise visible.

More positive views of CCTV cameras have argued that the cameras are not intruding into people's privacy, as they are not surveiling private, but public space, where an individual's right to privacy can reasonably be weighed against the intended benefits of surveillance.

Furthermore, while it is true that there may be scenarios wherein a citizen's right to public privacy can be both reasonably and justifiably compromised, some scholars have argued that such situations are so rare as to not sufficiently warrant the frequent compromising of public privacy rights that occurs in regions with widespread CCTV surveillance.

Increasaingly, low-cost high-resolution digital still cameras can also be used for CCTV purposes.

The bats can be observed from the " bat cave ", a room that shows CCTV footage from an infrared camera installed in the cellar.

Larger video cameras ( especially camcorders and CCTV cameras ) can be similarly used, though they may need an analog-to-digital converter in order to store the output on a computer or digital video recorder or send it to a wider network.

He said: “ There have been problems with anti-social behaviour before, it needs CCTV cameras and some lighting .“ I am sure we can work with Wetherspoons to get this done .”

For example, closed-circuit television ( CCTV ) cameras can be added in areas where window surveillance is unavailable.

Maxted, dressed in a short see-through dress, is the film's main focus of attention, playing a member of staff who drags a customer into the back room for some multi-position sex, thoughtfully turning on the shop's CCTV camera so others can watch.

Operators can also use a variety of camera systems such as CCTV systems, or the high tech military version, called the Wide-Area Infrared Surveillance Thermal Imager or WISTI.

* Cars can be automatically found on CCTV records by automatic number plate recognition.

Finds can include wireless covert surveillance cameras, CCTV cameras, TV senders, home video senders, X10 cameras, etc.

Alstom Metropolis trainsets can be custom ordered with closed-circuit television ( CCTV ), wider seats, additional grabpoles, more space near the doors, wheelchair space and equipped with electronic displays ( six in each car ), showing station information, safety messages and videos, commercials and movie trailers.

* In 2011, new CCTV head Zhanfan " was found to have proclaimed in July January, both before the CCTV appointment in November that journalists ’ foremost responsibility is to ' be a good mouthpiece '" ( 当好喉舌工具 ).

In industrial plants, CCTV equipment may be used to observe parts of a process from a central control room, for example when the environment is not suitable for humans.

CCTV recording systems are still often used at modern launch sites to record the flight of the rockets, in order to find the possible causes of malfunctions, while larger rockets are often fitted with CCTV allowing pictures of stage separation to be transmitted back to earth by radio link.

These factors could not be teased apart from the effect of CCTV cameras being present or absent while crimes were being committed.

Thus, a combination of factors might be important for the decrease in crime not just the CCTV cameras.

To get a full understanding of the costs and benefits of CCTV in crime prevention these factors would have to be included.

The Cheshire report also claims that the average person on a typical day would be seen by 70 CCTV cameras, although many of these sightings would be brief glimpses from cameras in shops.

A CCTV system may be installed where an operator of a machine cannot directly observe people who may be injured by some unexpected machine operation.

She concludes that CCTV surveillance should therefore be reserved for specific circumstances in which there are clear and reasonably demonstrated benefits to its implementation and few ethical compromises.

Unless physically protected, CCTV cameras have been found to be vulnerable against a variety of ( mostly illegal ) tactics:

The word surveillance may be applied to observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment ( such as CCTV cameras ), or interception of electronically transmitted information ( such as Internet traffic or phone calls ).

Roads entering the City are narrowed and have small chicanes to force drivers to slow down and be recorded by CCTV cameras.

The government is heavily involved in the media in the PRC, and the largest media organizations ( namely CCTV, the People's Daily, and Xinhua ) are agencies of the Party-State: " The first social responsibility and professional ethic of media staff should be understanding their role clearly and being a good mouthpiece.