Wellington City Council...what the hell?!

Thanks Ange for throwing me this link. The wellington City Council have just installed 4 "high resolution" ( how high, i want details dammit!) CCTV cameras in order to track parking offenders and issue tickets based on details pulled from the camera feed. The 3 News article (linked off the image) talks about how they will be recorded continuously and allow the number plates of people parking illegally and in particular, cab drivers causing delays and problems on weekend nights.

The best part of the story is when the specifically say that the Council sort legal advice to ensure that the cameras are not a breach of privacy! The common rule seems to be that if you are in a public place then you are subject to being photographed at any time but this whole argument falls on its face when you think about how public space, as have often said, does not truly exist!
This sort of camera system smacks of the style of CCTV surveillance that is now commonplace in London and other parts of the UK; Ubiquitous and Orwellian...