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Sleepy English town to be entirely surveilled in case criminals forget and...
Royston, a small market town of 15,000 people in Herts, England, is being completely encircled with license-plate cameras that will record the comings and goings of everyone who passes in or out of...
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CCTV deterrence and the London riots
My latest Guardian column, "Why CCTV has failed to deter criminals," looks at the London riots and the way that rioters were willing to commit their crimes in full view of CCTV cameras, and what that...
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BART cops get shirt-pocket snitch-cams
San Francisco BART police are going to start wearing video cameras that record their interactions with the public (transit cops in SF have committed some controversial high-profile shootings lately)....
View ArticleCash-strapped UK local authorities spent £0.5B on CCTV in 4 years
"The Price of Privacy: How local authorities spent £515m on CCTV in four years" is a new report from Britain's Big Brother Watch, and it documents how the skyrocketing expansion of Britain's police...
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New Aesthetic eruption
A New Aesthetic eruption I caught yesterday off Brick Lane in east London: this LCD adverscreen displaying rotating, chiding public safety messages beneath a CCTV camera, nestled among the...
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Portland, OR considers ubiquitous CCTV surveillance
Devon sez, "Portland, OR is the next city to consider a plan to implement police surveillance cameras throughout the downtown area. The proposal is to have surveillance cameras that can be accessed...
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Pixelhead masks that make you look like a pixellated German Secretary of the...
Martin Backes is selling a limited edition of 333 "Pixelhead" anonymity masks, which allow you to replace your face with the pixellated likeness of German Secretary of the Interior Hans-Peter...
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Anti-traffic-cam countermeasure
NoPhoto is Jonathan Dandrow's electronic countermeasure for traffic-cameras. It's a license-plate frame that uses sensors to detect traffic-cameras, and floods the plate with bright light that washes...
View ArticleDC pulls in a record-setting $85M from traffic cams
A little followup to yesterday's post about NoPhoto, an Indiegogo fundraiser for a flash that confounds red-light cameras: the city of Washington, DC has smashed its previous record-setting rake on...
View ArticleSurveillance Camera Man wants to know why we accept CCTVs but not a creepy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7bT1ZfRtrJc "Surveillance Camera Man" is an anonymous fellow who wanders the streets and malls of Seattle with a handheld camcorder, walking...
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Berlin activists create CCTV-smashing street game
Activists in Berlin have created a game called Camover where they move through public spaces in disguise, smashing CCTV cameras, recording the act and uploading it to YouTube for points. The rules of...
View ArticleCasino cheats used house CCTVs to score $32M
A rich, high-stakes gambler was dragged out of his opulent comp suite at the Crown Towers casino in Melbourne, accused of participating in a $32M scam that made use of the casino's own CCTV cameras to...
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Walk 1.4 mi. in London, take photos of 140+ CCTVs
James Bridle photographed every CCTV between his home in east London and Dalston Junction, a 1.4mi walk with about 140 cameras. Welcome to London, where we have 11 CCTVs per red blood cells. Every...
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Putting party hats on CCTVs to celebrate Orwell's birthday
Yesterday was George Orwell's birthday, and to celebrate, people in Utrecht perched little party hats atop CCTV cameras in public places. By making these inconspicuous cameras that we ignore in our...
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Juxtaposing random Tweets with unprotected IP-based CCTV intercepts
Michael writes, "When working on SurveillanceSaver (a screen saver displaying random unprotected IP cameras) in 2008, I placed early Twitter messages on the surveillance cameras' images. The results...
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Russian Olympic official to reporters: stop complaining about hotels or we'll...
Dmitry Kozak, Russia's Olympian deputy prime minister warned a Wall Street Journal reporter that he would release hidden-camera footage of journalists in their hotel bathrooms if they continued to...
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Surveillance camera bird-feeder
Thinkgeek's Security Camera Birdfeeder ($15.99) is a bit of gallows humor for the post-Snowden age. Feed animals in your yard while they perch unwittingly into an icon of the corporate-government...
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Blind Eye Sees All: surveillance sculptures that benefit EFF
Jud Turner's latest sculpture is the haunting "Blind Eye Sees All (No Secrets Anymore)" (above); he's produced 50 miniatures (right) based on it whose sale benefits the Electronic Frontier Foundation....
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SDCC: Map of San Diego's surveillance network
Dave Maass sez, "If you're going to San Diego Comic-Con, you might want to dodge the cameras on this map if you're not in costume." (more…)
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