Though not the only surveillance gadgets now in use, and hardly the most sophisticated at that, CCTVs are certainly among those widely used to monitor a public that is largely unaware it is being watched.
THERE WAS a time when Pasay was an ideal place to raise a family. But when it was the turn of Paul Hinlo’s generation to call Pasay home, much of the city had already gone to seed. In the evenings, Hinlo recalls, drug dealers would wait for buyers on the street where he lived.