Currently being reported on the BBC Radio4, Internet Eyes allows anyone in Europe to sign up free to watch up to 4 UK CCTV cameras, which may belong to police, councils or private companies... and win £1000 each month for the best crime report.
Privacy? Who cares! The site says you can
- Earn reward money
- Have a chance at reducing crime
- Potentially become a hero and save lives
- Simply sign up for FREE, watch and report crime
So here's a tip for paedophiles and terrorists who are fed up dodging s44, PSCO's and nosey parkers : sign up to Internet Eyes and you get to use the police's own cameras for free, from the comfort of your own safe house. OK, you don't get to choose which 4 cameras, but I'm sure with a bit of ingenuity the global networks of perverts and extremists can aggregate the feeds into something more useful.
Meanwhile we await the recursive irony of reports that "there's a bloke with a camera in the street" from an anonymous couch potato wanabee hero and hopeful prizewinner, viewing him through, er, a camera in the street.
If you can't put in an FOI request and find out where you're likely to be s44'ed, why on earth would they open the cameras up to everyone+dog? Surely there's a whole load of useful info to be had here for the budding jehadis of which Britain is apparently full. Camera positions, blind spots,areas covered, angles (can they see your face?), resolution, night vision capability. Doesn't sound too smart to me, but it will at least save them the effort of doing recce's cunning disguised as middle-aged photographers festooned with kit.
And of course some Labour party donor gets to make a nice crust on the side.
Perhaps we should just cut out the middle man and all CCTV ourselves 24/7?
Photorights admin
"A vast and growing web of security cameras monitors the city of 55,000, operated by a private group of self-appointed gatekeepers. There's been surprisingly little outcry."
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jun/21/nation/na-spycam-city21
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