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London 2006, Meet London 1984

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-is-the-newspeak-for-change-the-channel dept.

Draape writes "Shoreditch TV is an experiment TV channel beaming live footage from the street into people's homes. According to the Telegraph U.K. television will broadcast from 400 surveillance cameras on the streets, into people's homes. For now they are only showing it to 22,000 homes, but next year they plan on going national with the 'show'. They fly under the flag 'fighting crime from the sofa'."

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  1. Re:Transparent society? by masterpenguin · · Score: 4, Informative

    The ol David Brin Theory. I'm not going to explain it, I'll just link away

    Wikipedia

  2. BBC Article by Hogwash+McFly · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's a BBC article on the subject as was in my submission for the exact same story about 5 days ago (grumble grumble).

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