Crowd-Sourced Tracking of Unmarked Police Cars


A police officer holding an iPhone.

As I was driving to work today, I noticed I was being tailgated. The driver seemed distracted by some electronic gizmo and wasn't paying much attention to his surroundings. I started to take a note of the car's numberplate when all of a sudden the front grill exploded with flashing blue lights, a siren started […]

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Holborn Station and Sousveillance


Photo of the Holborn Station sign. By Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Sousveillance (pronounced /suːˈveɪləns/, French pronunciation: [suvɛjɑ̃s]) as well as inverse surveillance are terms coined by Steve Mann to describe the recording of an activity from the perspective of a participant in the activity,[1] typically by way of small portable or wearable recording devices that often stream continuous live video to the Internet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u804C65q_Jk When this […]

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FoI BTP


Still from a video. A police office in a crowded train station.

Following on from my encounter with the police, I decided to file a complaint against Office 4825 for refusing to show me his ID via the BTP's public complaint form. Dear Sir or Madam,Office 4825 of the British Transport Police refused to show my his ID or Warrant Card when asked. I had been stopped […]

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Am I A Dick?


Still from a video. A police office in a crowded train station.

Well. Yes, probably. I have a small character flaw. I don't like authority. I question authority. I overreact sometimes. This is me being stopped under Section 44(2) of The Terrorism Act 2000. I informed the police that I would be videoing and streaming to QIK. The video was cross posted to Phreadz and discussed on […]

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