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English plainclothes police officer follows himself for 20 minutes

CCTV, panoptocon, panopticomic, surveilance, autocriminalsation, follow

An undercover police officer in Sussex, England, shadowed a suspicious character through the streets a small market town for 20 minutes, following directions passed to him by a CCTV operator who guided him towards the suspect. After 20 minutes, the CCTV operator realized that the “suspicious character” was the police officer himself.

http://boingboing.net/2012/02/08/english-plainclothes-police-of.html