I know, I know. You prefer the posts about code. Go read JSR #170, #277, #283, #311, revise the two kinds of JMS and have a butchers at JPA. That’ll keep you occupied while I rant.
So. Cory writes to tell us of an exciting new police initiative (hot-linked here – could change to goatse at any moment):
Yay. But does taking photos of CCTV cameras make you a terrorist? I’ve decided to find out. To play my new game, you will need:
- A Nokia Series 60 3rd Edition phone with internet connection
- A geo-tagging application
- A Flickr account that you’ve enabled for auto geotagging
- An app to upload your photos to Flickr
Now all you have to do is snap pictures of the cameras you find and upload them to Flickr before the police confiscate your camera. Of course, you can delete the photos from your phone the second they’re uploaded. No point leaving them hanging around – at best you’ll look like a weirdo in the unlikely event that the police go rifling through your personal property.
Here’s my photo stream – where’s yours? (Remember to tag your photos ‘cctvfun’).
Aren’t you helping the terrorists?
Let’s get some perspective. You’re still more likely to die in your bath than you are to die in an explosion. If people photographing CCTV cameras represents a significant threat to everyone’s safety, we should make some kind of law against it. At least that way there would be some kind of review of whether or not such a restriction on our freedoms makes sense and is proportionate to the threat. We shouldn’t allow the police to make up their own laws – that way madness lies.
As long as it’s legal to do so (and possibly even after it stops being legal to do so), I would encourage everyone to join in my new game and help redress the balance of surveillance.