[-empyre-] wearcam

[traceyb@byte-time.net]

Hi Katherine, Heidi and Floyd,

I am curious to know if any of you are familiar with the work of Steve Mann
(http://wearcam.org/index.html)?

A couple of years ago I saw a David Suzuki documentary about Mann and his
wearable cameras that was very interesting. It was also quite funny in places -
in one scene he had on his wearable camera and was walking around Walmart. The
security staff kept asking him to to take off his camera as he was not
permitted to take photographs inside the store, according to store policy. Mann
retaliated by stating that they should turn of the in house security cameras as
he did not give his permission to be photographed.

Are other empyreans familiar with this doco?

When I think about it - there is still a lot of currency in the issues
surrounding surveillance and civil rights that this particular scene was
conveying....