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Public Warnings For Public Video Surveillance

Posted by timothy on from the steve-mann-has-to-wear-a-sandwich-board dept.

pipingguy writes "The standards project aims to develop a sign which will make apparent surveillance operations using video cameras in public spaces and provide details of the body responsible for the data recorded. It is hoped to produce a simple, easily understood symbol, possibly using design elements already used in other standardised signs. An image (e.g. a camera) and text could be combined, and agreement will have to be reached on the typeface, size and colour of the wording to be used, as well as on its contents."

2 of 37 comments (clear)

  1. The preferred method of marking is... by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 4, Funny

    A bunch of wires hanging down, and smashed electronics and lenses lying on the ground beneath them.

  2. Signs by Ratbert42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    When I was in college, a certain vending machine area had signs that said "AREA UNDER VIDEO SURVEILLANCE". We never could see a camera anywhere. So we stole the sign.