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When suburban moms embrace the surveillance society
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:45:40 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Greg Brooks <gregb () west-third com> Date: August 4, 2006 1:36:42 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: When suburban moms embrace the surveillance society Reply-To: gregb () west-third com Dave, for IP if you wish.There's an interesting piece in the Riverside (CA) Press-Enterprise [1] about
a woman who got her house toilet papered and decided to hunt down the culprits. She didn't want to involve the police, reasoning that they had better things to do, so she took the following steps: * She canvassed local stores to see which one had a run on toilet paper. * She then got the manager of the store to show her surveillance videos, allowing her to see the personalized letterman's jacket of one of the purchasers, as well as the license plate of the vehicle they got into.* Finally, she used a high school yearbook (matched to the school based on the letterman's jacket) and online databases to get the names, phone numbers
and addresses of all the teens spotted in the store tapes.To me, this is a bit more than a "talker" feature. One takeaway, IMHO, is that we're pretty far down the road to sheepdom when average citizens start thinking "well, everything's monitored all the time anyway - let's see if I
can make use of that." Warm Regards, Greg Brooks West Third Group [1] http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/toilet_paper_caper ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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