Thread: Big Brother is watching you...!

To promote a new TV show, CBS has installed interactive billboards in NY and LA that zero in on a passerby and take their picture, wanted or not.
There is, of course, no expectation of privacy in a public place, but this goes too far. To have your picture displayed on a billboard with the caption "Person of interest identified" just seems so invasive.
Where will it end? Do we have to wear masks to avoid being centered out?



CBS Using Interactive Billboards to Promote 'Person of Interest' - WSJ.com

"The Ministry of Truth offers a case of victory gin to anyone who digs for nose gold for the benifit of our handful of viewer."

Hmm...I'm not so sure that this bothers me at all. I remember when video cameras first came out and every store had one set up by the entrance. People would just stand there fooling around with it. It was kind of fun.

It's promotion for another cop fantasy tv show that substitutes a really stupid idea for this arcane device of a "plot", which none of them know how to write anymore; and they wonder why people would rather watch orange hookers fall down in bars.

Originally Posted by from the article

After a count of three, the photo is taken and the person's face is incorporated into the display.

Sounds relatively easy to avoid if one wanted to.

Originally Posted by John Drake

It's promotion for another cop fantasy tv show that substitutes a really stupid idea for this arcane device of a "plot", which none of them know how to write anymore; and they wonder why people would rather watch orange hookers fall down in bars.

That's totally untrue. The new Hawaii 5-0 is a great cop show with a great plot.....but, then again, I haven't seen any orange hookers recently...

Originally Posted by lutherf

That's totally untrue. The new Hawaii 5-0 is a great cop show with a great plot.....but, then again, I haven't seen any orange hookers recently...

I haven't yet watched the new 5-0 because the old one was so bad it tainted my viewpoint. I mean, it was nothing but another stupid cop show, but this one was set in Hawaii. Not even an ongoing Chinese villain changed anything.

Strangely, the one that actually tried to use the setting to advantage (Magnum) was even worse.

There hasn't been a good cop show on tv since "The Rockford Files"

Originally Posted by John Drake

I haven't yet watched the new 5-0 because the old one was so bad it tainted my viewpoint. I mean, it was nothing but another stupid cop show, but this one was set in Hawaii. Not even an ongoing Chinese villain changed anything.

Strangely, the one that actually tried to use the setting to advantage (Magnum) was even worse.

There hasn't been a good cop show on tv since "The Rockford Files"

I kind of liked Dexter ... your run of the mill serial killer cop.

Originally Posted by FearandLoathing

To promote a new TV show, CBS has installed interactive billboards in NY and LA that zero in on a passerby and take their picture, wanted or not.
There is, of course, no expectation of privacy in a public place, but this goes too far. To have your picture displayed on a billboard with the caption "Person of interest identified" just seems so invasive.
Where will it end? Do we have to wear masks to avoid being centered out?



CBS Using Interactive Billboards to Promote 'Person of Interest' - WSJ.com

I find it invasive but not unexpected. It gets people in the practice of having privacy captured.

Originally Posted by michael h

I kind of liked Dexter ... your run of the mill serial killer cop.

Seconded. Also, the recent Chicago Code was, possibly, the best cop show I've ever seen. Explains why it was cancelled.