Now You Too Can Be A Surveillance Camera!
from the digg-for-law-enforcement. dept
We've had plenty of stories in the past about the concept of "sousveillance" and David Brin's idea of the transparent society where everyone watches everyone else, and it seems like the world keeps moving in that direction. The latest is in New York City, where Mayor Bloomberg is apparently working on a plan where anyone can take camera phone photos or videos of suspicious activity and immediately send them off to the police. Of course, that only works if the police aren't flooded with bogus reports. Maybe this doesn't go far enough. The next step should be for them to make all the images and video publicly available somewhere, so that crowds of web surfers can vote on which images and videos are actually crimes, and which aren't worth bothering with. Think of it as a Digg for law enforcement.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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FUCK YES!!!
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Junior High Society
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Re: FUCK YES!!!
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oh yeah!
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Why not...
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Laymen Defining Suspicious Activity has mixed resu
Imagine an altercation developing because someone objected to having a video or picture taken.
Also, would the police arrest people who would video or photograph THEM?
Or perhaps lawsuits developing over false allegations.
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Police surveillance not meant to be surveillance o
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Civillian Crime Down, Police Crime Up
Bloombergs new cell photo program is a hit, Civillian crime down 35% !!!
In Other news Police Crime is up 43%
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About the Digg part.
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Crowd-sourcing is so old-school
(I'm trademarking that term by the way)
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Mark my words...
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Re: Mark my words...
I'm wondering if there would be a "trouble ticket" you would get so you can follow up on your "complaint"...
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Wasn't that the way that caught that hospital employee that stabbed that woman a few weeks ago? traced his whole escape route.
So, how much more Orwellian can we get? In the book "1984", weren't you considered double-plus-good to rat on those doing "ungood"?
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Digg
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Re: Mark my words...
Then some good could come from it!
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Anyone Still Not Convinced......
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AI
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too many problems
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You call 911 and report the problem and tell them you have vids/pics. They determine if this is BS or you are for real or if they even need the pics/vids and if they want you to send them in they send you a text message. You respond to that text message and include your pics/vids.
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Re: Re: FUCK YES!!!
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When I'm on hold waiting and bleeding to death because the rest of the lines are tied up with stupid bitches who call 911 for injured birds, lost wallets or loud music on a Saturday...then yes...sort of...but not really...I say let's fix the system we have before we "improve" it by letting the nerds that work for the gov't go nuts with a bunch of money so they can build a big, huge, expensive-ass system that may or may not (leaning towards not) work.
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