{"id":18798,"date":"2013-01-29T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18798"},"modified":"2018-01-15T18:23:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T23:23:29","slug":"taking-the-fight-against-cctv-surveillance-to-the-streets-of-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/01\/29\/taking-the-fight-against-cctv-surveillance-to-the-streets-of-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the fight against CCTV surveillance to the streets of Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.techeye.net\/security\/berlin-activists-gamify-smashing-cctv-cameras\" target=\"_blank\"><em>TechEye<\/em><\/a> looks at the &#8220;gamification&#8221; of resistance against CCTV surveillance in Berlin:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A group of German activists has come up with an intriguing campaign to counter state surveillance &mdash; turning the destruction of CCTV cameras into a game.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed &#8216;Camover&#8217;, the aim of the game is simple: destroy as many CCTV cameras as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Once your target is destroyed, you can upload a video of the act to <em>YouTube<\/em> for internet points and kudos. The rules say players should come up with a name starting with &#8216;command&#8217;, &#8216;brigade&#8217;, or &#8216;cell&#8217;, followed by the name of a historical figure, then destroying as many CCTV cameras as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Video your trail of destruction and post it on the game&#8217;s website,&#8221; the activists suggest, but warn that the homepage is continuously being shut down. It&#8217;s recommended that players conceal their identities, but this is &#8220;not essential&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9GCsd2TJKjQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechEye looks at the &#8220;gamification&#8221; of resistance against CCTV surveillance in Berlin: A group of German activists has come up with an intriguing campaign to counter state surveillance &mdash; turning the destruction of CCTV cameras into a game. Dubbed &#8216;Camover&#8217;, the aim of the game is simple: destroy as many CCTV cameras as possible. Once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1118,84,10],"tags":[756,878,98,911,481],"class_list":["post-18798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-germany","category-government","category-liberty","tag-anarchy","tag-berlin","tag-police","tag-surveillance","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Tc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20500,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18798\/revisions\/20500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}