{"id":1756,"date":"2010-09-30T08:48:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T12:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2010-09-30T08:48:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T12:48:03","slug":"internet-eyes-aims-to-fight-crime-through-public-viewing-of-video-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/30\/internet-eyes-aims-to-fight-crime-through-public-viewing-of-video-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Eyes Aims To Fight Crime Through Public Viewing of Video Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new video vigilante service, called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/interneteyes.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Eyes<\/a><\/strong>, is starting up in the UK, where average citizens are rewarded for watching store video cameras on the Internet and instantly notifying store owners via text message when they see a crime, like shoplifting occur. \u00a0The service is both controversial and interesting.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy comes from privacy concerns, where Internet Eyes recently won regulator approval. \u00a0The interesting part comes from the entire business model. \u00a0Nearly all retail stores have some type of video security system in place these days. \u00a0The problem is, these systems are rarely monitored by human beings in real-time, rather, they simply provide after-the-fact evidence of a crime.<\/p>\n<p>With Internet Eyes, every-day people (i.e. the public) will be able to monitor store video cameras over the Internet in real-time. \u00a0If they see someone shoplifting, they can immediately notify store owners. \u00a0In other words, crime can be stopped as it happens.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the attraction for the public to do this? \u00a0First, there are rewards. \u00a0The most successful &#8220;net cops&#8221; can receive monthly prizes of cash or merchandise. \u00a0And then there&#8217;s the whole gaming aspect of it, where people are naturally drawn to the real-life game of cat and mouse. \u00a0For store owners the advantages are obvious&#8230;they can have a fleet of eyeballs watching their stores 24\/7 for less than they&#8217;d have to pay a security firm.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how Internet Eyes fares in the UK&#8230;and if similar services will start popping up in the U.S. (with it&#8217;s litigation happy society).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new video vigilante service, called Internet Eyes, is starting up in the UK, where average citizens are rewarded for watching store video cameras on the Internet and instantly notifying store owners via text message when they see a crime, like shoplifting occur. \u00a0The service is both controversial and interesting. The controversy comes from privacy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[688,689],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}