SOS Camera Watch

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> --- latanya () privacy cs cmu edu wrote:
> >
> > Announcing the launch of SOS Camera Watch at
> > the Data Privacy Lab
> >
> >
> <http://privacy.cs.cmu.edu/dataprivacy/projects/camwatch/index.html>
> >
> > The Camera Watch project is part of our  new
> > Surveillance of Surveillances ( SOS) effort. We
> > are constructing a repository of links to
> > publicly available on-line webcams, where the
> > webcams of interest are those that observe the
> > public in public spaces. At present, we
> > estimate there are about 10,000 such cameras
> > displaying public places in the United States.
> > Our goals are to assess the number and nature
> > of such cameras, explore potential uses, and
> > analyze and propose related policies and best
> > practices.
> >
> > Our database is just being launched.  The
> > current edition of the database has only a few
> > hundred direct links to cameras with about
> > 6,000 links currently queued for processing. We
> > expect to have these included in the database
> > over the next weeks.  If you find an on-line
> > camera you would like included, feel free to
> > submit the URL.
> >
> > You can search the database for specific
> > cameras, submit a URL, or get more information
> > at
> >
> <http://privacy.cs.cmu.edu/dataprivacy/projects/camwatch/index.html>.
> >
> > Thanks to Kishore Madhava and Marshall Warfield
> > for their effort in getting this launched.
> >

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