Prices of CCTV cameras are tumbling, and surveillance is no longer just a tool of the state. More and more people are installing personal CCTV cameras and recording what goes on in their neighbourhoods and their businesses, and even inside their own homes.
This episode takes a humorous, revealing and at times disconcerting look at how we risk becoming a nation obsessed with recording each other.
In millionaires' mansions, two-bed terraces, shops and businesses across Britain, the programme meets people who are sacrificing their own and other people's privacy for the promise of security, and asks whether cameras are fixing or feeding their fear of crime.
The programme also hears from those on the other end of CCTV surveillance, the ordinary people caught on camera.
Although there are now more than four million privately owned CCTV cameras in the UK, there's little regulation governing how they can be used, or what can be done with the footage they record.
Are the cameras creating more problems than they solve? And, with 11,000 fewer police on the streets than there were four years ago, is CCTV the only remaining option for protection and security?
