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I'm gonna' need a bigger tin-foil hat.............. P.S. Is this world-wide, or just in Europe? | |
Was there a government-engineered plague I haven't heard about yet, to necessitate such monitoring? Countdown to Fingermen and a chancellor starts now. Also, if they are successful I can see this type of "game" being implemented in the US - patrolling the Mexican border. Countdown to poopsocking racists begins now. | |
Looks like just the UK. So I guess instead of watching Big brother, you get to get watched by him. | |
It sounds very Orwellian, and yet I'm actually intregued. I'm one of the seemingly few people who actually think that CCTV in public places is quite good. I mean you're not important enough to be worth spying on, and yet they are a good tool to keep an eye on street violence. All we need is people to actually watch the cameras. That's where this comes in. I'm going to check this out. | |
KEWL I GET TO WIN MONEY ^_^ Yeah, yeah, this is terrible. One step closer - 1984 here we come! | |
As with all news out of Britain nowadays, lol, shithole (no offense Englanders, but that is how your nation comes off to me). | |
Luckily, just when the USA-Bashing starts to get over the top... | |
£20 a week seems rather pricey to me. | |
Really all we need to do on the Mexican border is put up a shock fence... Acually thats illlegal but really all we need to do is put up one giant flat wall (not a fence) and slant it at a 45 degree angle twords Mexico, they can't climb it. O.T. If i lived in Europe then I'd definatly join that thing, but if the above post isnt clear, im a US citizen... sadly. | |
Oceania, 'tis for thee. I agree with the reference to 1984. I mean seriously.
Combine that with the statistic that only 1 in 1000 (I think?) CCTV cameras solves a crime and...£20000 for every £1000 paid out I think. | |
Too late. There are already sites that allow you to watch the US-Mexico border and report things to the border patrol. | |
Well, I've signed up! | |
I might just start up a betting pool to see how long it is before it's become known as the second best stalker's tool right after IP locators. They might well state that none of the CCTV cameras will have their location noted to the public, but with Google Earth, a map, and a good knowledge of the urban areas it wouldn't be difficult to work it out. | |
Very nice. We are actually a complete shithole. Thanks for that. On the story, does anybody remember the idea for the Manhack Arcade in the original drafts for Half Life 2? This story reminded me of that... | |
I never thought I'd see the day when the face of anonymous became the literal response to something. I think they just broke the... world. | |
As long as they don't implement this in the US I'll be fine. | |
I dont get why this would be bad. Whats wrong with putting cameras in public places? If they can reduce the crime rate why not as long as they're only in public places or private owned ones where the owner wants them. Can someone explain why they're bad? | |
This is the town where Shakespeare was born and lived in. | |
@4:00 My point being that building a fence does nothing to stop anyone from crossing the border. (A wall would only take slightly more time to get through.) If immigration were really as much of a problem as it is made out to be, a system of cameras and a big brother monitoring system would be far more effective, and cheaper to boot. That said, let's not make this a thread about the Mexican border, please.
For money? | |
Eh...It doesn't seem bad. I mean, it's a good way to get a grip on crime-- turn the entire nation into your cash-hungry security force! ...It was probably a bad idea to post a reply after coming off of a stint on Bioshock...Bloody parisites... For those of you who don't know, that was a reference to the game, not a jab at the Mexican race. | |
Even despite relative crappines of CCTV picture... YAAAAY! All hail Big Brother! Oceaniaaa,heeere i coooomeeee! | |
Thank God this is only in europe. | |
Yeah, no offense but your country is shit... Nice one. And it doesn't matter how England comes off to you, no one cares. I think this is kind of a good idea. I mean, if you aren't doing anything wrong then why should you be so worried? | |
Likewise! | |
Ohhh, crap... | |
Your not too far off, i'm SO moving out of this country when i'm older. It's utter crap. | |
this is awesome but 4,2 million cctv thats 100800000 hours of viewing every day. | |
i hope there are cams of female locker rooms... you know cause they do crimes and stuff | |
Oh joy. has no-one read 1984 in europe? or perhaps the Russian KGB? the Gulag ring any bells? jeez, to think Europe (Eastern) used to be one of the greatest protesters against this sorta stuff. | |
That's not true, this is actually a private company here, and we are the employees. I looked into this, and it is Freedom-approved. | |
Am I and thenumberthirteen really the only people to think that this is a good idea? I mean, CCTV in public areas is one of the best ways of catching vandals, drunken brawlers, and other crimes committed in public. Only problem is 90% of the time they're's no-one watching, so hopefully this will go some way to cutting down on those sorts of crimes. How exactly is this a bad thing, anyway? They're all in public areas, so what they're recording is what anyone can see. How is that "Orwellian"? Also, in what way does this deserve the word "apalling"? It's not like this is a genocide, or a serial-rape-torturer. | |
There are 4.5 million people in The Republic of Ireland, where I live. There are 4.2 million cameras in the UK. Some perspective there. (there are about 20,000 cameras in ROI) I'm glad I don't live in the UK, the country that has taken up the dubious honour of the most spied on country after the end of the DDR (East Germany) | |
So instead of watching these cameras when I'm bored by looking through Google I can do it when I'm bored and maybe get payed? I can see myself enjoying that. | |
Alright if you feel that way can I spy on you at all times of the day | |
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New "Game" Encourages Secret Police-Style Spying
A new online "game" called Internet Eyes is about to launch, offering players a chance to earn money by spying on people through closed-circuit television cameras and reporting them to the police - for real.
Players of Internet Eyes will monitor "thousands" of CCTV cameras, watching for crimes and reporting them to the authorities in hopes of winning monthly cash prizes of up to £1,000 (roughly $1600). The game's website will also feature a gallery of the people busted by Internet Eyes users along with a breakdown of their crimes and which user caught them. Tony Morgan, one of the men behind the scheme, said he and his partners were inspired to launch Internet Eyes by the fact that while the U.K. has roughly 4.2 million CCTV cameras installed throughout the country - a per-capita rate that easily outpaces even that of China - only "one in a thousand" actually gets watched.
"This could turn out to be the best crime prevention weapon there's ever been," Morgan said. "I wanted to combine the serious business of stopping crime with the incentive of winning money."
The game will be free to play, while anyone who wants a camera monitored by Internet Eyes will pay £20 per week for the service. Morgan said he hopes that businesses, "local authorities" and even police forces will eventually take advantage of the service. The game will use cameras in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon when it launches in November, with a country-wide rollout expected soon after.
"Crimes are bound to get missed but this way the cameras will be watched by lots of people 24-hours-a-day. It gives people something better to do than watching Big Brother when everyone is asleep," he said, apparently without a trace of irony. "We've had a lot of interest from local businesses and hope to roll it out nationwide and then worldwide."
Not everyone is as enthusiastic about the plan as Morgan, however. Charles Farrier of the group No-CCTV called it "an appalling idea" and said, "It is something which should be nipped in the bud immediately. It will not only encourage a dangerous spying mentality by turning crime into a game but also could lead to dangerous civil rights abuses."
I think "appalling" is a pretty good word for it. In the latter half of the 20th century, East Germany suffered under the incredibly repressive thumb of the Ministry for State Security, better known as the Stasi, a secret police agency famous for the extent to which it monitored the lives of everyday German citizens. Citizen-spies employed by the Stasi reported on each other to such an extent that two decades after reunification, the nation is still struggling to come to terms with the extent of the collusion. And now somebody wants to turn that sort of self-inflicted surveillance into a game?
On the other hand, maybe "appalling" isn't strong enough.
Source: Daily Mail
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