At 04:28 PM 02/13/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote: >The American television program "The Agency" had a refreshingly honest >angle on this whole thing: British surveillance nazis were busy using the >ubiquitous cameras in parks to look up the skirts of attractive women >sitting on the park benches. (The cameras are shown as having zooms and >some very tightly crotched, er, cropped images are easy to get.
While surveillance cameras may not typically have angles suitable for that specific application, the general tendency that seems to show up with surveillance cameras has in fact been that they're used much more for looking at attractive women than stopping crime. (And that doesn't even count the X10 cameras....)
