We're Watching You
January, 2007
THE PROCESS OF SURVEILLANCE HAS ASSUMED A PRIMACY IT NEVER HAD BEFOREThis past summer, driving around Britain, the spy-cam capital ol the world, I became a grudging fan ol the anonymous designer of the speed-camera warning signs that have proliferated on roads minor and major since 2000. The signs depict in stylized form an anti(|iie bellows camera wilh knurled knobs to wind the lilm, thus sending two conflicting messages at once. One ishostile ("We re watching you"), the other warm an...
