Capturing the database state: community photocall

Becky Hogge, 29 September 2008

Collage of images Happy-snappers unite! We need as many people as possible to take photos of stuff that embodies the database state, and the UK's world-famous surveillance society (wake up! You've just walked into it).

On 11 October, No2ID and the Open Rights Group will make a live collage of the images you've taken in a prominent location in London (to be confirmed), to celebrate Freedom Not Fear Day 2008.

Freedom not Fear is an international day of action for democracy, free speech, human rights and civil liberties, and events to celebrate these central tenets of a just society will be taking place all over the world.

Here's how you can help:

Spot something that embodies the UK's wholesale transformation into the surveillance society/database state. Subjects might include your local CCTV camera(s), or fingerprinting equipment in your child's school library
Snap it
Upload it to Flickr and tag it "FNFBigPicture" - please use an Attribution Creative Commons license*
That's it!

*We need you to license it this way because we want to give the image to newspapers to run on the day.

Watch this space for more news on the 11 October event, including how to come and help build the collage.

Click here and here for photo credits.

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adrian

Reply #23 on : Mon September 29, 2008, 13:23:06

the linked flickr search uses FnFBigPicture (lowercase n) - i tagged mine with FNFBigPicture and they don't show up unless you search for FNFBigPicture (uppercase n).

Terrorpeut

Reply #22 on : Mon September 29, 2008, 14:10:40

<strong>Die Überwachten schießen zurück...</strong>

Anscheinend sind die Engländer ein ganz undankbares Völkchen. Kaum daß der Staat und der Kommerz jeden ihrer Schritte überwacht, da formiert sich doch erster Widerstand. Nun ruft die Open Rights Group dazu auf, den Überwachungswahnsinn in Fotoser...

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Reply #20 on : Mon September 29, 2008, 20:38:26

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Reply #19 on : Mon September 29, 2008, 20:51:24

This is a nice idea, but I wonder how many people will, like myself, be arrested for the non-crime of 'taking photos in public'?

I've now been arrested 3 times for this in Glasgow, at not once has any charge ever been brought against me.

YAm

Reply #18 on : Mon September 29, 2008, 22:12:44

Might try and snap some of the 20+ cctv cameras at my local underground station (Colliers Wood, that well known hive of criminality...)

Caroline Ford

Reply #17 on : Tue September 30, 2008, 00:02:38

The photos you've used are all BY-NC. Is BY-NC allowed for the press?

Will you accept BY-SA and plain old -BY?

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Reply #9 on : Fri October 03, 2008, 17:15:03

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Reply #8 on : Tue October 07, 2008, 10:26:01

I've got photographs of council officers photographing me at my front door due to me being a campaigner (mainly) to lift the secrecy of the family courts. It's insane, thanks for doing this.

flickr

Reply #7 on : Tue October 07, 2008, 16:27:45

you missed the "signup to yet another web site" step.
hate flickr? you soon will.

Jared Earle

Reply #6 on : Tue October 07, 2008, 16:40:22

Just make sure not to take any photos of drunk women:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7651107.stm
<em>A man who took a photograph of an ill woman outside an Edinburgh bar has been fined £100 after being branded "unchivalrous" by a sheriff.</em>

dave ridings

Reply #5 on : Wed October 08, 2008, 10:46:02

there's a neat film on the subject at current:
http://current.com/items/88856223_you_can_t_picture_this

david

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Reply #3 on : Thu October 09, 2008, 12:41:17

@Adrian:

re the image tags letter case issue: It shouldn’t make any difference to the search query. Look at the number of matches the results contain. For me, that number is identical, whichever mixture of letter case I use.

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