How to map surveillance cameras (a practical guide)
People have already started mapping cameras.
The information exists.
People have already walked around cities noticing what most others ignore. They looked up, documented things, added locations, corrected information and made invisible infrastructure a little less invisible.
We liked that idea.
Not because every camera is evil. Not because every camera is secretly controlled by some underground supervillain sitting in a volcano.
Mostly because people should know what surrounds them.
And because most people still walk underneath cameras without ever noticing them.
That is where YOU come in.
We want to help people see them.
To know where to look.
To recognize the small black domes, the boxes on corners, the cameras pretending to be lamps, sensors or decoration.
Because once you notice something, you start asking questions.
Who installed it?
What is it recording?
Is it public?
Private?
Temporary?
Permanent?
Is it watching a doorway or swallowing an entire street?
Questions are useful things.
Surveillance prefers people who never ask them.
How to map them
- Take out your phone
- Visit this url
- See what's around you
- Start looking up and map what's not there.