Privacy - Is There Any Left?

Internet Eyes markets itself as a company stopping the high crime rates in the UK, specifically shoplifting.  As mentioned in one review of the company on Geek.com, this doesn't seem to worry everyone when it comes to privacy.  The reviewer, Matthew, saw finding someone on the Internet the same thing as hiring someone from an application.  However, I see a really big difference.  If someone is hired to work in a room and survey stores all day, they are at work.  When people are at work, for the most part they act a certain way and respect their job in order not to lose it.  On the other hand, if people are working for Internet Eyes, they are working in the privacy of their own home.  They can go to work in their underwear, and figure out ways to do whatever they please with the footage in front of them, because they are not being supervised.  With that thought, I am completely against the idea being brought to America, though I doubt it will make it here.


As far as privacy goes, the subject of surveillance made me think of something that I've never deeply considered.  I've gone into the dressing room of some stores and casually read the signs that say there are cameras watching me, so I should think twice before stealing.  I brush the sign off because I know I won't steal, and proceed to try on the clothes.  The law seems to be that if there are surveillance cameras in the fitting rooms, men are watching men in the fitting room while women are watching women.  But when I go to American Apparel, which is where I have originally seen the sign about cameras, the fitting rooms are not separated.  Men and women use the same fitting rooms, which now makes me wonder: Who is watching me while I change clothes??




http://www.geek.com/articles/news/internet-eyes-will-pay-you-to-watch-security-camera-feeds-2010106/
http://www.lawforkids.org/speakup/view_question.cfm?id=295