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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:06:52 -0500


http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html


From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>

Routes of Least Surveillance
By Erik Baard

2:00 a.m. Nov. 28, 2001 PST

It's not the journey or the destination; it's the getting there
unseen that counts.

Or so goes the thinking behind a new mapping utility created by civil
libertarians to guide New Yorkers through Manhattan along routes with
the fewest surveillance cameras.

It's like Mapquest for dissidents and paranoiacs, or for those simply
creeped out by the feeling of being watched, constantly, by countless
mechanical eyes.

The service, called iSee, was created by the Institute for Applied
Autonomy, a group of technologists, and the New York Surveillance
Camera Project, an offshoot of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

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http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,48664,00.html


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