Man loses C&P Phantom Withdrawal case

[James Firth]

> Meanwhile, Para 3 of the judgement includes dates and times (for most
> of
> which the claimant produced an alibi of sorts).

Given the current trend for often tenuously warranted and widespread use of
CCTV across all sections of our lives, and given also the relatively low
costs of image capture equipment (and storage) coupled with the massive
increase in plastic fraud over the last 20 years I'm amazed that every ATM
is not today fitted with a camera to take some sort of image of every user.

I know the cost of upgrade of existing equipment is often used as an excuse
but surely a self-contained proximity sensor and digital capture/storage
combo can be mounted relatively inexpensively in all locations.

And I'll add a possible answer to my own question.

Is it because images of criminals are actually of limited use in preventing
crime? The clearest use of such images would be to clear legitimate
cardholders of fraud and thereby could actually increase the amount of money
banks have to pay out in compensation.

So I float the idea that one of the ways the banks would be forced to invest
in such technology would be for the law to side with the claimant in all
cases where ATM images were not present.

James Firth