Immersion Blog » CCTV http://blog.robbiecooper.org Ideas, bad science and art Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:42:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Internet Eyes http://blog.robbiecooper.org/2009/10/12/internet-eyes/ http://blog.robbiecooper.org/2009/10/12/internet-eyes/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:25:18 +0000 Robbie http://blog.robbiecooper.org/?p=2528 I missed this story last week. Not that I read the mail. Internet Eyes is an online game that allows users to identify “criminals” by giving them access to Britain’s 4 million plus CCTV cameras. It aims to launch in November, players who help catch the most perps each month will win cash prizes up to £1,000. The 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;

The instant a Viewer monitors an event, an alert can be sent directly to the owner of that live camera feed. The alert is sent along with a screen grab, identifying the image you have observed. Only the first alert received by the camera owner is accepted.

The camera owner will then feedback (rate) the result of the alert. Their feedback is converted into points and entered into a Viewers monthly league table. At the end of each month the highest scoring Viewer will receive the reward money; this could be split in the event of a tie.

Viewers register for free with no recurring fees. Each Viewer has 3 x alerts per month allocated to their account for free. Viewers are able to ‘top up’ their alerts through PayPal if they so desire. The free allocations of alerts are limited to prevent system abuse.

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There’s something about the banality of this footage that makes it very disturbing. Michael Bloomberg was quoted as saying “Look I saw the footage and I was… horrified is much too nice a word”. It speaks of a culture of neglect and isolation.

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