David Drake wrote a story, later expanded into a novel called A Nation Without Walls, wherein by Federal law every location, every room in every building (including toilet), every car interior, every alleyway, everywhere has a surveillance camera covering it. In theory any given individual could be observed 24/7: No matter where he went he’d be on camera. In theory: What made this bearable was that like a store’s security cameras, 99.99% of it was never seen by human eye, but was simply stored until rotated out and dumped - unless it was needed. Crimes get difficult when you’re always on camera. Masks are useless, for the investigator can track backward through the data, following you back in time from camera to camera to before you put it on!
Difficult is merely a challenge to some, though… The main character was just such an investigator, dealing thus with murder mysteries with a very unusual premise!
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Re: Cameras
Date: 2020-09-04 03:11 am (UTC)David Drake wrote a story, later expanded into a novel called A Nation Without Walls, wherein by Federal law every location, every room in every building (including toilet), every car interior, every alleyway, everywhere has a surveillance camera covering it. In theory any given individual could be observed 24/7: No matter where he went he’d be on camera. In theory: What made this bearable was that like a store’s security cameras, 99.99% of it was never seen by human eye, but was simply stored until rotated out and dumped - unless it was needed. Crimes get difficult when you’re always on camera. Masks are useless, for the investigator can track backward through the data, following you back in time from camera to camera to before you put it on!
Difficult is merely a challenge to some, though… The main character was just such an investigator, dealing thus with murder mysteries with a very unusual premise!