Citizens Spy On Big Brother 719
An anonymous reader writes "Citizens of the world are striking back at 24/7 state surveillance by pulling out their cameraphones and filming inept officials, deadly healthcare lapses and thuggish cops. So-called Sous-veillance is seeing more and more people posting damning footage of official misdemenours to sites such as YouTube to shame them into action." I wonder what happens if you inform a cop that you are recording him when he pulls you over.
Nothing. (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, I'm sure they won't care, when they searched for expectation of privacy on Google, they found out there was none [slashdot.org].
Marge Simpson said it years ago (Score:5, Funny)
"The courts might not work anymore, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be served."
Marge Simpson
That's not how its supposed to be (Score:1, Funny)
Re:You wonder? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:don't inform the cop you're recording him. (Score:5, Funny)
What's funny is at first I assumed your were answering the question as opposed to admitting ignorance.
Re:You wonder? (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, those damn cops are always going after the gay lefties. It's no wonder we've got such an enormous prison overcrowding problem here in California.
Re:You wonder? (Score:5, Funny)
Seussveillance (Score:5, Funny)
Forget Sousveillance, you want Seussveillance. You have to wear a big long stripey jumper and speak in rhymes.
'Excuse me officer, would you mind,
would I be fined, maligned or confined,
if I were to tape your daily grind?
Sir, I'd like to believe,
that you and me we've
both come to perceive
That your job affords you - the responsibility to be true!
(I couldn't conceive of a way you'd
deceive me my friend, aggreive or bereave!)
A hasty repreive!; My hypothetical weave
does you an injustice. (And speaking of justice)
Enough of confession: let's return to my question.
I got impression of obsession with oppression.
Is this a true fact, or idle digression?
Would recording your good self be found a transgression?
Am I a free man?
or need I grab my tape, my cape and escape?'
Re:You wonder? (Score:5, Funny)
They're only jealous because we lefties are the only ones in our right minds.
Re:Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Score:5, Funny)
What are you, some kind of Godwin's Law Nazi? You know, Hitler was always accusing people of pushing the boundaries of Godwin's Law.
Re:You wonder? (Score:1, Funny)
>Posted anonymous for obvious reasons.
Because you're a paranoid kook?
Re:You wonder? (Score:5, Funny)
I can see the video folder on your media server...
"2006.07.21 - Cancun vacation"
"2006.11 - Winter Storm: The tree comes down"
"Pron"
"2007.04.15 - Cops beat me to a pulp"
"2007.06.31 - Mikey's first piano recital"
Citizens Spy On Big Brother? (Score:2, Funny)
Gentlemen...welcome to Soviet Russia.
Re:You wonder? (Score:3, Funny)
counter-intelligence (Score:3, Funny)
Everyone is spying on everyone else, eh? Are they going to start printing the newspapers in invisble ink? :D
I demand the cone of silence!
Re:You wonder? (Score:3, Funny)
And after the cops find out that they have been remotely recorded...
drwxrwxrwx 12 root root 4096 2008-06-12 09:28 kinderporn
drwxrwxrwx 12 root root 4096 2001-09-11 08:47 al-qaida_manuals
-rw-r--r-- 18 root root 1048576 2008-06-12 12:53 drug_dealer_phone_numbers
Re:Get what you pay for (Score:4, Funny)
How many in the Slashdot crowd would quit their jobs to be a police officer? It is a low paid profession....
Not when you count the income from bribes....