Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Faceless: Chasing the Data Shadow

"With an estimated 4.2 million CCTV cameras in place, [the UK's] inhabitants are the most watched in the world." Insights into the process of making 'Faceless', a sci-fi film utilising Data Protection requests from CCTV systems. Exposing first-hand experiences, the makers detail the many different types of replies they received to their subject access requests made under the Data Protection Act; explaining the general confusion of many data controllers, how so many CCTV systems are not functional and why the process of obtaining images became much more difficult from 2004...
text : http://www.variant.org.uk/31texts/31faceless.html
pdf :http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue31/313Faceless.pdf

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