Forget Crimewatch
Britain, already one of the most snooped-upon nations on Earth, is about to become a nation of snoopers. A network of citizen crimewatchers will be given the chance of winning up to £1,000 by monitoring CCTV security cameras over the internet.
The cameras’ owners will pay a fee to have users watch the footage. The scheme, Internet Eyes, is being promoted as a game and is expected to go “live” next month with a test run in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Subscribers will be able to register free and will be given up to four cameras to monitor. Eventually the consortium behind the idea hopes to have internet users around the world focused on Britain’s 4.2 million security cameras, waiting to see and report a crime in return for cash prizes.
This would be hysterically funny if it weren’t so sad. Its Nu Labour is action is you like (not that the Tories are any better mind you). My earnest recommendation aside from standing orders to shoot out CCTV cameras at every opportunity, should anyone come across any of the directors or staff of Internet Eyes, they are immediately hanged from the nearest lampost.
The real criminals are in the Westminster Village ... yet they steal our money & erode our freedoms without scrutiny but with complete impunity
P.S. If anyone has a Companies House account, I would be grateful if you could get me the names & home addresses of the pondlife directors behind this so that I can publish them here
Comments
From their homepage it looks like they intend to farm out enforcement to the Polish police.
Posted by: everthewatcher | October 6, 2009 9:19 AM
"Betray your family and friends - fabulous prizes to be won!" (Red Dwarf, BBC TV)
Posted by: Bruce | October 6, 2009 2:56 PM
Instead of £1,000 rewards for snoopers, someone else could set up
"Internet-grasses-cut-while-u-wait.com"
It will offer bounties of £1,000 for the authenticated cutting-up of any internet-grass who tried to log on and win £1,000 for grassing up somebody else to the State.
THe IRA did indeed show us the way a few decades ago: trust the Irish to save the world as always. Firms who, say, corresponded with the British Army over work etc, had their employees and premises "targetted".
Perhaps it would behove us to consider what sort of sub-human-evil that we really are fighting, if we could but for even a minute, stop trying to _not_ learn form the Enemy Class, and perhaps _learn_ to pick up its weapons.
Posted by: David Davis_libertarian Alliance | October 6, 2009 3:46 PM
..can't help thinking of the guy arrested for slagging off Big Brother (and I'm with him on that!)in his sleep in '1984'& being reported by his young son
Posted by: ed | October 6, 2009 3:59 PM
The Irish may have saved the world during the Dark Ages, but they just gave the world away by voting for the Lisbon Treaty.
As for the surveillance thing: I say, shoot all the cameras. Buckshot from close range, .308 from any other distance.
Posted by: Kim du Toit | October 6, 2009 6:11 PM
I wonder what power of laser pointer would be required to burn out the optics of a CCTV/Speed/Redlight Camera from a "safe" distance, and what is the off angle tolerance of such an effort?
Posted by: JustWondering | October 7, 2009 2:46 PM