Australians are preferred spies for CCTV online due to the time difference
Posted on 10/16/2009 3:45:56 PM PDT by BGHater
AUSTRALIANS could soon be paid for spotting crimes happening on the other side of the world.
British company Internet Eyes will offer a reward of up to $1740 to people who detect shoplifting and other crimes on a network of UK security cameras.
Subscribers will watch live footage over the internet on their home computers.
The company believes the different time zones made Australia the ideal location for detecting night-time crime in the UK.
"I would love people in Australia to be looking at this," managing director Tony Morgan says.
The scheme could also be switched so that UK residents monitored cameras in Australian cities, Mr Morgan says.
Since the fledgling system first gained publicity in Britain last week more than 7000 people have signed up to be "viewers".
That would be enough people to monitor 28,000 cameras when the system is rolled out, as soon as next month.
Australians are preferred spies for CCTV online due to the time difference
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thats alot of free eyeballs hours. You only get paid if crime were detected
not worth the time
A suppressed .45 ACP would ruin that surveillance camera very nicely.
*pok!* ... *PA-TANG!*
(tires squealing)
That’s how it’s going down when these cameras inevitably make it to America. Probably monitored by Indians in Bangalore, I predict.
A better investment would be a lotto ticket.
According to the company site, they only pay the “highest league table viewer”, each month. You get 3 alerts a month — you have to pay for additional ones. It seems that you could be out of pocket, as well as wasting time; unless you get the most points. Seems a little shifty, to me.
http://interneteyes.co.uk/faq.php
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