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re U.K. turns CCTV, terrorism laws on pooping dogs | Surveillance State - CNET ...
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 19:18:26 -0400
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From: lost journals <lostjournals () gmail com> Date: May 12, 2008 7:00:42 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>Subject: Re: [IP] U.K. turns CCTV, terrorism laws on pooping dogs | Surveillance State - CNET ...
I don't know what is going on with the UK, it's like they're using 1984 as an installation guide. In case anyone missed this clever turning of the tables, however, here's the story of a music band who not being able to afford to produce their video, performed in front of 80 of the estimated 13 million (public) surveillance cameras in UK, and then got the footage by filing a request under UK's Data Protection Act. http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=3961 Link includes the finished video. "The Get Out Clause are an upcoming UK band who are currently unsigned. They took a brilliant and I'm sure soon to be much copied method to producing their own video. Unable to hire a production crew for a standard 1980's era MTV music video, they performed their music in front of 80 of the 13 million CCTV "security" cameras available in England, including one on a bus. They then used Britain's Data Protection Act to request the footage that was shot of them. Grab some decent and inexpensive video editing tools (say. . . an iMac) and presto! They got themselves a unique and in my opinion quite interesting music video." cheers, Forest Mars -- "In theory, theory and practice are exactly the same. In practice, they're completely different." ------------------------------------------------------------------ Switch to Name.Space: http://namespace.org/switch Support new domains & keep free media free! Register yours today! https://secure.name-space.com/registry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBRkjTLDbz7LySoccvEQJDcQCguZZj4M4kOVOlOX4CtbgR0rppsdovAjra 3RRXIlkdzuYI0YJz4WyvKlTn =MLhk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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