CCTV

...CCTV sounds great - imagine a paradise where no crime is comitted because everone is being watched (sounds like the last page to Orwel's 1984 - the book that everone quotes but rarely reads)...now think a little deeper, how far should removal of privacy from daily life go? Who should be able to watch you? Who should be able to say whether your are comitting a crime or not? You might be, or even you might be thinking of a crime and don't even know it yet...

Anyway, to aid us to this paradise, Internet Eyes have the product for you. The Daily Mail picked up on this (though that's not the best source for news) and so did Slashdot with the inevitable Stasi and Orwell quotes, though Hitler wrote about much of the philosophy behind this much earlier in Mein Kampf.

Just to make it a little more surreal, Internet Eyes offers prizes of 1000 GBP for the person who "solves" (no definition provides) the most crimes...hmmm, I might sign up, after all you could be a criminal and I could be a 1000 GBP richer...