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Spot the Surveillance: A VR Experience for Keeping an Eye on Big Brother

by Spokane 2600 Webmaster published Nov 22, 2018 11:11 PM, last modified Nov 22, 2018 11:11 PM
Spot the Surveillance is a virtual reality (VR) experience that teaches people how to identify the various spying technologies that police may deploy in communities.

https://www.eff.org/pages/spot-surveillance-vr-experience-keeping-eye-big-brother

The user is placed in a 360-degree scene in the Western Addition neighborhood of San Francisco, where a young resident is in the middle of a police encounter. By looking up, down, and all around, you must identify a variety of surveillance technologies in the environment, including a body-worn camera, automated license plate readers, a drone, a mobile biometric device, and pan-tilt-zoom cameras.

Read the press release. 

To play, visit: https://eff.org/spot-vr

 

 

 

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