Blog /Uhh... Cameras Are Bad... So Don't Use Cameras... Mmm kay?

November 10, 2006 07:58 +0000  |  Why I'm Here 0

I did something exciting (or stupid, I can't yet decide) tonight at the Public Space Committee's General Meeting... I volunteered for the position of campaign coordinator for a new campaign we might be starting: one to remove/discourage the use of cameras in public space.

You know what I'm talking about, there's the benign, common ones for red lights, and the more invasive ones that are positioned over public squares set to record images and scan them with biometrics for "bad guys". I don't really have a (big) problem with the prior but the latter is completely unacceptable, and so I put up my hand before I understood what I was doing.

I've never run a committee of any kid. I've managed small teams of technical people, but I've never talked to the press, doled out work to volunteers or served in any capacity like this for a political organisation. It's exciting, but scary as hell.

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