On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > > An article here about everyone filming everyone else, and the impact it may > have: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8010098.stm
Interesting article, Bob; thanks for sending it. "Sousveillance", eh? I like the term. Along the same lines of the rest of the article, near the end of my legal career (in the mid-nineties) the police started routinely videotaping interrogations. They and the Crown thought it would be a great idea: No more "cops write out the confession and the accused refuses to sign" sort of deal. Once the accused confessed, it would all be on tape and irrefutable. Wrong! Much to their chagrin, those tapes ended up in many unexpected acquittals as some pretty nasty (but routine) interrogation methods were shown to the courts "in living colour". Oddly, those techniques didn't make it into the written police reports as to how the "confessions" were obtained! ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
