Public Warnings For Public Video Surveillance

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."

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Re:False sense of privacy

[Anonymous Coward]

A group called the Surveillance Camera Players has been mapping cameras in New York City, and has instructions for making your own such maps. They found that the number of surveillance cameras in Times Square grew from 75 in 1998 to 258 in 2002.