Comments on: Megabandwidth: are they getting it in Shoreditch? http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/05/12/megabandwidth-are-they-getting-it-in-shoreditch/ What's going to go wrong in our e-enabled world? Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:56:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Watching Them, Watching Us http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/05/12/megabandwidth-are-they-getting-it-in-shoreditch/#comment-206 Watching Them, Watching Us Sun, 13 May 2007 11:33:07 +0000 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/05/12/megabandwidth-are-they-getting-it-in-shoreditch/#comment-206 The initial hype for this Shoreditch Digital Bridge scheme also stressed the idea that subscribers would be able to get access to CCTV camera feeds and and web camera feeds, so that they could magically "prevent crime" http://www.digitalbridge.org.uk/sdtv/crimechannel.php There is no mention of the obvious risk that the local drug dealers etc. could also use the same "community CCTV" scheme to watch out for Police patrols, or to target neighbourhood homes for burglaries once their occupants have been spotted leaving them for work or shopping etc., all from the comfort of their own homes on the estate. The initial hype for this Shoreditch Digital Bridge scheme also stressed the idea that subscribers would be able to get access to CCTV camera feeds and and web camera feeds, so that they could magically “prevent crime”

http://www.digitalbridge.org.uk/sdtv/crimechannel.php

There is no mention of the obvious risk that the local drug dealers etc. could also use the same “community CCTV” scheme to watch out for Police patrols, or to target neighbourhood homes for burglaries once their occupants have been spotted leaving them for work or shopping etc., all from the comfort of their own homes on the estate.

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