HACKER Q&A
📣 Jamie9912

What happened to surveillance camera guy?


Ironically it looks like his content has been taken down from YouTube AND archive.org https://archive.org/details/SurveillanceCameraMan18


  👤 numlock86 Accepted Answer ✓
As someone who has no idea what this is: What's the context here? By the name I would assume violation of multiple privacy related cases, which probably justifies deletion from basically everywhere. But then again, I have no idea what's the deal here.

👤 cortic
It is fascinating even reading these comments, people falling over themselves trying to define a difference between 'some guy' recording them, and cctv (which is effectively 'some guy' recording them).

It kind of reminds me of a nature program i watched some time ago, where they 'concealed' the cameras in plain sight by strapping them onto trees to get footage. Its important to remind ourselves that we are simple animals too, and when we don't see the 'guy' we don't feel the threat.


👤 globular-toast
Interesting. Every now and then I download and save a local copy of content I think will be "at risk" for future censorship. This was one that I saved.

I'm not surprised it's been taken down from Youtube because, well, it's Youtube. But odd that it would be removed from archive.org.


👤 tsywke44
He has a new channel, ”Vagrant Holiday”. Highly recommend.

https://youtube.com/c/VagrantHoliday


👤 petercooper
There's a British chap who's been becoming popular on YouTube lately who does some interesting public filming which sounds like it might be similar (though not identical, as he is more focused on practicing his legal rights rather than provoking a reaction): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HmOju41Ma0

👤 DavidPeiffer
I was able to find #6 on Vimeo. I'm entirely unfamiliar with this content.

https://vimeo.com/98862974


👤 timdaub
I loved his stuff and how upset people got. You could say it was performative art criticing post-modern technocratic stance on privacy: While Zuck said privacy is over: this dude got people raging. "I'm just making a video"

Legend


👤 belter
Surveillance Camera Man had some of the most fascinating videos ever uploaded to the Internet.

They were:

- A form of Urban Art.

- A study of Human behavior. From the relaxed and curiosity driven reactions of a few, to the freaked, untitled, scary, reaction of many.

- A intrusion into the personal space of some, while in a public space, only made more fascinating by his calm brazenness.

- Pure real life Golden Comedy.

The most important reminder, will always be of how much our tolerance to surveillance is only based on the invisibility of said surveillance. In the digital world or in the real world. Always took Camera Surveillance Man, with his constant repetition, "It's just a camera", "It's just a video" as a statement of the must important unspoken question: "If you freak out about this camera, why don't you freak out about the others?"

Commentators arguing about a personal invasion of privacy, are forgetting how easily it is to correlate two or three different signals, and de-anonymize you, therefore formally putting the camera back at your face again.

Golden I tell you:

"Just a video":

https://youtu.be/AQgiLK5HuiA

https://youtu.be/t4mGnGFDs9Y

This one, where the person arguing about it sits on a desk,

with a large green panel that says: "CCTV Monitoring Station"

https://youtu.be/X_cO41naHCg


👤 theartfuldodger
After seeing this comment and watching a few of the AMAZING vagrant holiday videos, I learned from the comments that he likes to upload to specific locations and has deleted his videos and re-uploaded them many times over the years.

I checked other mentioned locations and you can still watch the full collection here: https://www.bitchute.com/video/OkQQggPH6a9B/


👤 olwmc
I believe he now goes by “Vagrant Holiday”. Could be wrong though

👤 throwuxiytayq
Ouch, sounds like a lawsuit/c&d maybe?