'Eyes are everywhere - cameras have moved into every aspect of our life'
“They moved into every aspect of our life”
Big Brother is always watching.
You might not see it but eyes are everywhere - even when you think you are all alone with just your thoughts for company on a walk through one of the city's quietest areas.
We are one of the most watched countries on earth.
It started with CCTV cameras recording some of our busiest areas - all monitored from an anonymous council room somewhere central.
Traffic cameras go a long way back too.
There are the ones that flash if you zoom past above the speed limit and the ones that show exactly where the hotspots are for gumpy drivers sat fuming in gridlock.
Then they moved into every aspect of our life.
We have them on our doorbells, on our dashboards as we drive, attached to hats, glasses and, of course, our phones.
Even if you aren't actually being recorded, if something bad or funny happens you can bet your bottom dollar that somebody nearby will whip their recording device out of their pocket.
We must have all seen videos where we wished those recording would have offered help instead.
Perhaps that isn't new - I'm sure we all also remember You've Been Framed.
What wouldn't some people have done to raise a laugh for a couple of hundred pounds?
At the other extreme, there are satellites beaming images of planet earth right back to us here on the surface.
Google has recorded almost every street in the world and, if you happened to be there at the wrong or right moment, you too are immortalised for all to see.
There are even cameras monitoring the city's peregrines and I have friends who installed a camera so they could enjoy watching a family of badgers who set up home in their back garden.
It isn't only humans who have every second monitored. It doesn't matter where things go wrong - your face is being recorded on buses, in pubs, at supermarket checkouts and as you walk through city centre streets.
When does the good work that cameras can achieve become a negative because we are over monitored?
Do we need every aspect of everyone's lives to be measured - for good or bad?
I know of cases where staff monitoring the city centre cameras have seen crimes as they happen, alerted officers on patrol nearby and the culprit has been caught in the act.
When people have done something wrong it is also very hard to deny when everyone can watch you back doing the deed - in slow motion and as many times as they like.
Today's front page features 10 people who the police believe can help them solve crimes.
Gone are the days where they solely rely on dodgy sketches which rely on witness statements and are sometimes so bizarre they barely look human.
With cameras now routinely used by police to observe offenders in the act or to try to identify culprits, victims and witnesses, South Yorkshire Police regularly releases images of those officers want to trace.
And in the last couple of weeks, police have published a spate of appeals in connection with crimes ranging from serious assaults to burglaries.
They think those in the pictures could have important information to help them solve crimes. You may know if that is true or not.
Just as cameras can prove crimes, they can also do the opposite.
Just recently a lawyer was telling some very interesting stories about police bodycam - and how it regularly helps disprove officers’ cases as well as proving them.
Whatever we think about cameras, they are here to stay. We might not all like it but clearly many of us do - or so many houses, helmets and dashboards would not be adorned by them.
I slipped on ice at the start of the year and broke my wrist.
Safe to say, I was still in the queue at A&E when the footage of my ungraceful fall was making its way around the family WhatsApp chat.
Flowers, sympathy, vitamin d tablets and replays ... what else would you expect to be greeted with when something goes wrong these days?