Thursday, 10. April 2003

Watching you, watching me


New tour turns eyes on city’s surveillance cameras. Bill Brown stands in the middle of a crowded Manhattan sidewalk, gesturing obscenely toward the sky. “You’ve got no right to do this! I think you’re a coward!” he shouts at a video camera staring back at him from four stories up. Unusual behavior for a New York tour guide, but Brown is offering a view of the city that few visitors or natives see. His “Video Surveillance Tour of Manhattan” scans rooftops, storefronts and utility poles for some of the thousands of surveillance cameras perched across the city.

¬> Reuters

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