Tony Morgan, managing director of Internet Eyes, believes that people are just dying to watch shots from some of these cameras. His company is offering a prize of 1,000 pounds to the person who reports the most crimes for the month. He's set up a web site so that people can see what the camera sees by logging in. Morgan's customers are really the stores with cameras. He plans to charge them 20 pounds a month for his 'crime prevention' services.
While Morgan has devised rules that make this process seem like a game, he claims ""This isn't a game - it's serious. This is all about crime prevention and it could be very, very effective. At the moment people look at CCTV and think someone might or might not be watching so they commit the crimes anyway. Once this gets going and we get signs saying that the CCTV is part of our scheme, it will be an extra deterrent because people will know they are probably being watched."
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It's just another example of capitalism gone berserk. Criminals take little notice of CCTV cameras in Britain. They are the result of a successful marketing campaign by the manufacturers, coupled with the seeds of fear sown by a government (Tony Blair's) in the pocket of the corporates.
This latest 'game' is yet another wealth producing scheme by a greedy, get-rich-quick, entrepreneur who thinks he has a great idea for feathering his own nest.
It's not '1984', but yet another example of capitalism unleashed and allowed to run rampant.
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