Internet Eyes: Earn Money Spotting Crimes on CCTV Cash Prizes for Remote CCTV Snoopers, Civil Rights Groups Unhappy (For A Change)

The internet is about to get a new reality game, known as Internet Eyes,
that already has civil rights groups up in arms on account of the fact
that you ll be cast as a �remote snooper who ll get paid cash for
spotting real crimes via CCTV cameras installed in shops and shopping
centres through out the UK.
The Internet Eyes internet �game , which is the brainchild of David
Steele, Tony Morgan and James Woodward, and which is set to be rolled
out across Britain by December, with a worldwide rollout following in
2010, will pay out up to a purported pound sterling1,000 should users
report crimes, via SMS, seen via live CCTV streams streamed directly via
the Internet Eyes site to their computers at home with then �game
awarding points for confirmed crimes and deducting points for mis-reports.

Civil rights groups, as you d except, aren t in the least bit happy and
claim that Internet Eyes will �encourage people to spy and snitch on
each other which, pinch me if I m wrong, is the whole premise of the
game, isn t it? (10 points there for stating the bleeding obvious). On a
more sober note they also claim that the �game will be open to abuse
by fringe groups such as racist organisations who may �decide to send
alerts every time a black person is seen on screen .
'This could turn out to be the best crime prevention weapon there's ever
been. I wanted to combine the serious business of stopping crime with
the incentive of winning money. There are over four million CCTV cameras
in the UK and only one in a thousand gets watched.ย Crimes are bound to
get missed but this way people the cameras will be watched by lots of
people 24-hours-a-day, said Tony Morgan, one of the people behind
Internet Eyes, adding �It gives people something better to do than
watching Big Brother when everyone is asleep.

Internet Eyes is set to initially encompass CCTV cameras in shops and
businesses across Stratford-upon-Avon prior to drawing CCTV streams from
across Britain and, eventually, it would seem, across the globe.

>From our perspective we already know we re watched and to what extent we are watched and this �game is hardly going to see CCTV cameras felled so why not put the power of Big Brother into the hands of the people?

We welcome your thoughts? Are you a potential Internet Eyes remote
snooper in the making? Let us know.