Stars Of CCTV, Shoreditch

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January 3, 2006

We all know by now that London is the most CCTV’d place on earth (this still doesn’t make us feel any safer when we’re there). The proliferation of surveillance cameras has been strongly reacted to: some folk take up culture jamming and even the Brit band Hard Fi named their debut album, ‘Stars Of CCTV’.

Anyway, a new web-tv system is to be launched on a council housing estate in London’s Shoreditch that may increase the public’s awareness (and use) of CCTV just a little bit further. The register reports:

With the help of set-top boxes from IBM, [the Shoreditch Trust] aims to build a
broadband digital network covering 20,000 residents on housing estates
in the Shoreditch area. Alongside video on demand TV services from
Homechoice, the SDB will offer a "Community Safety Channel" which will
allow residents "to monitor estate CCTV cameras from their own living
rooms, view a ‘Usual Suspects’ ASBO line up, and receive live community
safety alerts."

Nosey neighbour TV! This is going to be bigger than Survivor!

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