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Detailaufnahme einer Videoüberwachungskamera vor einer großen Fensterfront.
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Technology (2005)

Video surveillance

The BigBrotherAward in the category Technology goes to a number of very eager surveillance fetishists for the creeping degradation of citizens to objects of continual compulsory observation and playing down the consequences of…

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Karin Schuler
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Technology (2004)

Canon

Canon Germany - An ID number storied in photocopying machines is invisibly printed on *all* copies. As each copier has an individual number, the source of a copy can be traced. This is sold as a feature to protect against…

Laudator.in
Frank Rosengart
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