Pedestrian surveilance cameras are now ubiquitous in urban centres around the world. A citizen's group in Minneapolis has created an online, user-updated
map to keep track of new cameras as they appear:
To what extent are pedestrians in downtown Minneapolis monitored on surveillance cameras? Are most of the downtown cameras owned by the city or private businesses? Is the footage from these cameras recorded or just viewed? How long are the recordings kept? Who has access to the public camera footage?
The Minneapolis Surveillance Camera Project exists to answer these questions. Working with a shoestring budget, and a lot of very dedicated volunteers were working to inventory all the security cameras that record public spaces within the downtown area. Anyone is free to help out, just report any cameras you see that aren't on our list. (mpls-watched.org)
Pedestrian surveilance cameras are now ubiquitous in urban centres around the world. A citizen's group in Minneapolis has created an online, user-updated map to keep track of new cameras as they appear:
