The Chinese normally mean it, too. They executed the head of their food and drug watchdog because of corruption.

Over here that would net you early retirement with a healthy pay-off.

... What people do with CCTV footage over here.

Particularly given the SIA's recent scandal over not checking whether their operatives are entitled to work in the UK or not.

Well, it's better than being splattered all over the train, as the UK police are likely to do...

our government would never put anything inappropriate posted on the net...they can't hang onto it long enough <_<

"Yes, we all expect privacy when we go out in public, don't we?"

There's a difference between being observed while out in public and having your actions recorded and broadcast to millions of people around the world. And having comments posted about them.

Who watches the watchmen?

There is a difference between snogging in public, in front of people you don't know but are comfortable with being in an enclosed space with, and snogging on Internet video for the entire world to see, There are more than two levels of privacy. A gym is a public place as well, but if someone started taking pictures of sweaty cleavage and buttocks you'd still expect them to be thrown out at the very least.

If someone started filming me in a train, I'd ask them what the hell they were doing. If they were filming me in the act of kissing someone or something similarly intimate, I wouldn't bother asking questions, I'd just lamp them, since I already know the answer. Which is "I'm a disgusting bottom-feeding pervert who thinks that because I have no private life worth thinking about, nor should anyone else". The fact that it was done via CCTV adds Kafkaesque helplessness to an already sick situation.

If the Chinese catch the dreck responsible and string him up, it'll take some deep breathing and long meditation on the evils of an unaccountable and corrupt government having the power of life and death over individual citizens before I feel even the smallest smidgeon of sympathy.

There is no such thing as "a little bit pregnant". Once that clip is out on the web, it does not matter whether 2 million or 2 billion people watched it !! El Reg is just carrying on its journalistic function as best it can !!