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General Interest => Tacitus' Realm => Topic started by: SEKTO on April 18, 2010, 09:21:48 AM

Title: For the voyeur who wants to make a quick buck
Post by: SEKTO on April 18, 2010, 09:21:48 AM

Behold "internet eyes," in which you get paid to spy on your neighbor if you can catch them doing wrong.

http://interneteyes.co.uk/index.html (http://interneteyes.co.uk/index.html)

Title: Re: For the voyeur who wants to make a quick buck
Post by: psy on April 18, 2010, 12:38:51 PM

Quote from: "SEKTO"

Behold "internet eyes," in which you get paid to spy on your neighbor if you can catch them doing wrong.

http://interneteyes.co.uk/index.html (http://interneteyes.co.uk/index.html)

I've heard about this.  it's Britain's experiment in distributed big brother.

Title: Re: For the voyeur who wants to make a quick buck
Post by: Ursus on April 18, 2010, 01:14:51 PM

Looks like it's mostly focused on nabbing shoplifters. God knows whatever else they pick up, not to mention the potential for false positive reports...