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   Crowd Sourcing

   

   Joe Smith, Aug 25th, 2006 @ 12:03pm

   
   

   Now if you add in a bounty for successful apprehensions you might just have a viable business model.

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   RenderingSanity, Aug 25th, 2006 @ 12:58pm

   
   

   Joe that's not a bad idea at all. Perhaps someone will listen.
   
   Imagine people sitting at their desks at work with a window open on a cam somewhere far away and an EMERGANCY button on screen should something happen...
   
   Oh wait...not working at work...lost revenue...crap can't do that...

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   New 1984?

   

   Spartikus, Aug 25th, 2006 @ 1:11pm

   
   

   Is it still 1984ish if the government isn't the entity behind it?...

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 25th, 2006 @ 1:19pm

   
   

   no, just very voyuristic....

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   Frink, Aug 25th, 2006 @ 1:34pm

   
   

   Some attorney will convince the court that the spying done by a private citizen of a foreign country was illegal. Violated rights - case tossed. Now file suit against the man in Dallas. Man in Dallas now up international shit creek. The bandits end up owning property in Dallas.

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   expectation of privacy

   

   Sean, Aug 25th, 2006 @ 1:53pm

   
   

   Thieves have no expectation of privacy when they are breaking into someones business. A company could have cameras installed in their business that are monitored 24/7 and the person monitoring could be anywhere in the world. The person in Dallas aside. The cops caught them in the act.

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   Robert, Aug 25th, 2006 @ 2:10pm

   
   

   And if I get locked out of my car and have to break a window and I get arrested for car theft, who do I sue for falsae arrest?

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   False Arrest?

   

   Andrew, Aug 25th, 2006 @ 2:14pm

   
   

   Uhm...that's why you show the police your Identification and proof of ownership.
   
   IT really is that simple.

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 25th, 2006 @ 2:29pm

   
   

   dumb Frink. just dumb.

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    Anonymous Coward, Aug 25th, 2006 @ 2:30pm

    
    

    yourself for being an idiot and failing to show proof you own the vehicle. that was dumb to. do you and Frink know each other?

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    Anonymous Coward, Aug 25th, 2006 @ 2:32pm

    
    

    oh, and double idiocy for failure to call a locksmith first.

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    Rick, Aug 25th, 2006 @ 3:24pm

    
    

    Who's going to patent this idea now and charge the police for it?

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    Typo in original story

    

    Philip Hodgetts, Aug 26th, 2006 @ 12:39am

    
    

    "theives" - i before e except after c. :) After getting my knuckles wrapped so many times i can't not notice it 40 years later.
    
    And a totally sycophantic "love the Techdirt blog" only because I do.
    
    Philip

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    watching and waiting

    

    voyeur, Aug 26th, 2006 @ 1:01pm

    
    

    I thought I saw a story a while back about having private citizens volunteer to watch web cams on the US border to try to catch illegal aliens sneaking in. Does anyone else remember the details?

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    web cams on borders

    

    my real name, Aug 26th, 2006 @ 1:18pm

    
    

    This story reminded me of the following one from BBC about Texas putting web cams on the border and asking citizens to volunteer to monitor them, looking for illegal aliens:
    
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5040372.stm
    
    On another note, I just submitted a message a few minutes ago and instead of the usual "your comment has been posted" acknowlegment I got something like "your message has been flagged as potential spam and will be reviewed by a techdirt employee". Ha! I'd like to see a story here about techdirt's "spam filter" and what about my message flagged it as spam.

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    Re: Re:

    

    Frink, Aug 26th, 2006 @ 9:51pm

    
    

    Why do you hide as an AC?

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