Yesterday, All Their Troubles Seemed So Far Away, Then They Got Busted Via Webcam For Stealing
from the ticket-to-ride...-to-jail dept
A man in Dallas apparently foiled a robbery in Liverpool, England, when he logged on to view a webcam of Mathew Street, made famous by the Beatles. He noticed some men climb a ladder and smash a window of an outdoor sports store, before they went inside and started coming out with stolen goods, so he called police in Liverpool, who went down and arrested the three alleged theives. Sounds like the Neighborhood Watch by Web might be effective -- now we're just waiting for version 2.0, which marries the concept with those internet hunting sites people were so worried about a while back.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Imagine people sitting at their desks at work with a window open on a cam somewhere far away and an EMERGANCY button on screen should something happen...
Oh wait...not working at work...lost revenue...crap can't do that...
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New 1984?
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expectation of privacy
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False Arrest?
IT really is that simple.
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Typo in original story
And a totally sycophantic "love the Techdirt blog" only because I do.
Philip
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watching and waiting
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web cams on borders
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5040372.stm
On another note, I just submitted a message a few minutes ago and instead of the usual "your comment has been posted" acknowlegment I got something like "your message has been flagged as potential spam and will be reviewed by a techdirt employee". Ha! I'd like to see a story here about techdirt's "spam filter" and what about my message flagged it as spam.
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