Like gaming? How about catch a crook in real time!

Slow Motion

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/10/08/internet-%E2%80%9Cgame%E2%80%9D-use-cctv-catch-criminals#


"Big brother may or may not be watching, but a new form of interactive entertainment will allow participants to leverage Britain’s 4.0 million plus closed circuit cameras in a bid to catch criminals and win money.

According to the Daily Mail, Internet Eyes is scheduled to launch next month and has already drawn the ire of civil rights groups, who worry the activity could lead to civil rights abuses. One member of the opposition, Charles Farrior, labeled it “an appalling idea,” and worried it would create a “snooper’s paradise.”

Those watching cameras—in real-time—will be able to click a button every time they witness something they deem suspicious. Then, a message will be relayed to a camera operator, along with a still image from the camera. The operator will decide whether or not to take action and will notify the “player” if a crime has taken place or not.

Those participating will be blocked out after three incorrect alerts in a month, though additional alert opportunities can be purchased. As a further safeguard, actual locations of the cameras will not be known to those watching at home.

The article notes that Britain has 4.2 million CCTV cameras—one for every 14 inhabitants."

Black Swan

Shades of "Red Road" (the film)?

sounds like a laugh..

*click *click *click *ban

/back to boards

Slow Motion

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Shades of "Red Road" (the film)?

Not familiar with that one! Care to elaborate?

Black Swan

Slow Motion wrote: »

Not familiar with that one! Care to elaborate?

See Red Road (2007) film review. Link: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/red_road/
"In the squalor of urban Glasgow, Jackie (Katie Dickie) works at a video-surveillance firm that is in charge of protecting people who live on a single block of Red Road. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again. That man is an ex-con named Clyde (Tony Curran). Clearly shocked to see him free from prison, Jackie begins stalking Clyde..."

Prof.Badass

Those civil liberties ****. Always trying to stop power from being abused. tbh I don't care if you get "unfair" treatment. If you break any law, no matter how stupid or insignificant it is, you deserve to have your head cut off by a vigilante group.

Better 100 innocents get locked up than 1 rapist walk the streets.

vinylmesh

vinylmesh wrote: »

Better 100 innocents get locked up than 1 rapist walk the streets.

fuk that! sure 9 out of 10 people enjoy gang rape.

Canis Lupus

If that's a serious proposal that's properly scary. I don't get politically motivated over anything but the big brother potential of such a thing would have me marching on 10 Downing St.

Slow Motion

Canis Lupus wrote: »

If that's a serious proposal that's properly scary. I don't get politically motivated over anything but the big brother potential of such a thing would have me marching on 10 Downing St.

I dunno! I'd like to hear more about the "win money" bit before I make up my mind! Would there be like a sliding scale? £10 for someone pissing on the street, £20 for someone smashing a window.......£500 for a murder

Canis Lupus

I don't have an issue with the stopping crime bit but I'm very much against the desensitisation (lol sp?) of people over time with regards to big brother. Once the ball starts rolling who knows where it will stop? It'll be like 1984 with cameras and microphones in your house