[LINK] One-eyed documentary maker - inserting camera

[Jan Whitaker]

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/03/12/1236447354395.html

A one-eyed documentary filmmaker is preparing to work with a video 
camera concealed inside a prosthetic eye, hoping to secretly record 
people for a project commenting on the global spread of surveillance cameras.

Canadian Rob Spence's eye was damaged in a childhood shooting 
accident and it was removed three years ago. Now, he is in the final 
stages of developing a camera to turn the handicap into an advantage.
[snip]

Spence said he planned to become a "human surveillance machine" to 
explore privacy issues and whether people were "sleepwalking into an 
Orwellian society".

He said his subjects would not know he was filming until afterward 
but he would have to receive permission from them before including 
them in his film.
[snip]

But Spence also acknowledged privacy concerns.

"The closer I get to putting this camera eye in, the more freaked out 
people are about me," he said, adding people aren't sure they want to 
hang around someone who might be filming them at any time."

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This seems really not right. Not telling people he's recording them? 
What happens in men's rooms? [I'm assuming he wouldn't be in women's 
toilets.] Bedroom? Change rooms? Private homes?



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Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or 
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