Yes, I was vague in my comments. What I meant was that most,
fun/weather/scenic/city cams are open to all comers and therefore
providing uncontrolled surveillance where at least police or council
cameras are strictly regulated and their feed is largely private (except
if used in court).
My assertion is that a camera that captures a scene is performing
surveillance on an area and should be tagged accordingly. Add extra
tags to describe it further but don't remove the surveillance tag. Call
me paranoid but in 5 or 10 years time when we have all cameras commonly
tagged then you'll be grateful there is just one way of spotting them on
a map.
Jonathan
p.s. Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean that they're not out
to get you! ;-)
http://bigfatfrog67.me
On 01/12/2013 02:07, John F. Eldredge wrote:
On 11/30/2013 11:22 AM, Jonathan wrote:
I don't care if it's publicly available or not. Even if it is for
the personal and private use of some person somewhere (makes it even
more creepy). Surveillance is surveillance, doesn't matter why,
where it goes and who has it.
It should be tagged accordingly.
Jonathan
http://bigfatfrog67.me
On 30/11/2013 14:39, John F. Eldredge wrote:
Internet-connected cameras aren't necessarily publicly-viewable.
Access to the camera may require a password, or the video stream may
be sent, encrypted, to some other point.
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I agree with your statement that a camera is doing surveillance,
whether privately or available to the public. I disagree with your
statement that "no matter what the intention of a webcam it is pushing
to the internet and therefore there is no control on who sees it and
what they use it for", since, as you just agreed, video being pushed
to the Internet isn't necessarily publicly available. Including the
definition that a camera that is connected to the Internet necessarily
is available to all comers would mean that most security cameras
connected to the Internet would not be classed as surveillance cameras.
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