But the images a video camera collects can also, of course, be manipulated and distorted; its self-evident transparency, the enabling fiction behind Webcams, security surveillance tapes and reality television, can be blurred and smeared.
Josh Lowensohn at CNET just ran through a few webcam-based surveillance systems.
If the thought of being the unwitting star of your own prime time reality show gives you the willies, consider the recent revelation that more than 73,000 unsecured webcams and surveillance cameras are, as I write this column, viewable on a Russian-based website.
The Captive tells the story of a married couple whose young daughter is kidnapped and is imprisoned in a secure basement room by a paedophile with access to an extensive system of webcams and digital surveillance; it also follows the investigating team attempting to solve the crime some eight years later.
The performance of many applications, such as video streaming, webcam conferencing, and aerial surveillance, all greatly depend on video quality.
The apocalyptic coverage of some media, consulting webcams and data from surveillance systems influenced me to make audiovisual recordings of remote monitoring devices, of the territory's transformation due to volcanic activity, as well as geothermal phenomena and power plants.
Friday 28 February 2014 1,390,935 page views Though it concerned interception of millions of internet users' webcam images by Britain's surveillance agency, 55% of those people reading this article were in based the US and 21% in the UK.
Cameras were controlled by the video surveillance software Active WebCam Pro (Pysoft).
BERLIN — A group that calls itself the Chaos Computer Club prompted a public outcry here recently when it discovered that German state investigators were using spying software capable of turning a computer's webcam and microphone into a sophisticated surveillance device.
