A new internet game is about to be launched which allows ‘super snooper’ players to plug into the nation’s CCTV cameras and report on members of the public committing crimes.
The ‘Internet Eyes’ service involves players scouring thousands of CCTV cameras installed in shops, businesses and town centres across Britain looking for law-breakers.
Players who help catch the most criminals each month will win cash prizes up to £1,000.
The Internet Eyes’ website will also feature a rogue’s gallery of the so-called ‘criminals’ along with a list of their offences and which internet user caught them.But civil rights campaigners today condemned the game, which launches in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, next month, and branded it ‘a snoopers paradise’.They claim nosey neighbours could snoop on homeowners putting the wrong rubbish in bins and even motorists guilty of the most minor misdemeanors.
I am a privacy paranoid, I hate Google like the plague, but the more I think about the British surveillance system, the less I have a problem with it. Those cameras are watching over STREETS. I never expected any privacy on the streets.
And I am very suspicious of the types who bring up issues about invasion of sex life and private habits. You’d have to be having sex on the street to be concerned with that. Clearly a dishonest claim due to the lack of legitimate argumentation.
I don’t like the “rogue’s gallery of the so-called criminals.” That part is an awful idea.
This is great. I would signup for a system like this in the US; we can reduce the police force and reduce crime at the same time.
On the Mexican border; we can convert this into a FPS!!
When they signed the Patriot Act, you said “No problem, I’m a patriot!”
When they tapped your phone to listen to your, and your 16 y.o. daughter’s, conversations, you said “No problem, I have nothing to hide!”
When your neighbor, who never liked the look of you because you are too [black | brown | yellow | white | Liberal | Conservative | sissy | butch | fat | skinny | stoopid | lazy | poor | rich | loud | disinterested | patriotic | fashionable | ugly | smart | whatever] saw you accidently bump into someone, and reported that you had assulted them, then please come to me when you have $20,000 in legal fees so I can cry you a tear.
When I want to be safe, I move to a safe neighborhood.
Expect it to come to your neighborhood soon.
Wouldn’t the CCTVs be put to better use by selling packages to tourists where the Home Office could record your travels while in the UK and once your trip is over you get a commemorative DVD.
No need to bring your camera or video camera and possibly miss moments while your bust filming, big brother is there to lend a hand…