Make Money As a Virtual Security Guard

[benitez17]

For those of you in Europe with some free time, a website in the UK is offering to pay £1,000 to people who are willing to watch CCTV feeds and report potential crimes. More information from the BBC here. Obviously, the anti-CCTV and privacy advocates are not pleased about the launch of this site.

Do you have a problem with this? Personally, I don't see what the problem is, since these feeds are probably being watched by someone already, and they are all supposed to be publicly available anyway. I see it as just another company taking advantage of the masses of people online with not much to do to offer a service to customers.

[tke71709]

How ironic, I considered something similar long ago. Watching CCTV security cameras really is unskilled labour and I thought if one opened an office in Vietnam or the Philippines then one could be the place to go for security companies to outsource this to.

[Toni]

Lol, this stuff is borderline scammy:

In accordance with the ICO rules and guidelines, a seamless ID and Age verification check will be undertaken instantly a Viewer applies for membership. Once this has been confirmed a Viewer will have the option to become a member by paying an annual, quarterly or monthly subscription securely through our site

• Annual ￡12.99 discounted saving of 45.6%
• Quarterly ￡4.99 discounted saving of 16.4%
• Monthly ￡1.99 standard

Not much wrong with that yet but it seems like they have only £1,000 to shell out each month and the "most successful" crime reporter gets it all...

Commission based crime reporting LMAO

[woods]

Commission based crime reporting LMAO

lmao @ that. I can see thousands of housewives buying corny detective hats and signing up with usernames like hetty_wainthropp32. Dare I say - Chav Housewive's policing Chav's? (too far off the mark?) If they managed to spot a slapstick comedy moment they could get a £250 bonus too - what with You've been framed now accepting digital video.

Sky isn't even much more expensive.