Luxembourg - Under Surveillance

It's like GeoCaching, but with a touch of political hacktivism.

In order to allow the citizens of Luxembourg to see where they are being tracked and filmed, we decided to call an old idea back on the daily agenda: a digital free map available with as much possible information about CCTV system throughout Luxembourg.

http://lyon.sous-surveillance.net/ is an interactive map with loads of information about a few hundred cameras in Lyon, Paris, Toulouse, (France), with extended information as: position, photo, angle, location, owner, etc. The project has been called into life by the Lyon Hackerspace and is about being deployed as a global solution with the purpose to track every surveillance camera in the world.

Once upon a time, there was a map of nearly all CCTV systems in Luxembourg City; available on http://mallory.lu/ As this project has some kind of died or is just simply not available anymore to the public, we decided to revive it, but in a larger context.

Every user / citizen should be able to help track down the cameras and easily submit the related information to the map.

We have the privilege to be the first international country that joined this specific movement.

CCTV Map of Luxembourg	http://luxembourg.sous-surveillance.net/
Contact	contactluxembourg@sous-surveillance.net or info@c3l.lu

Get involved?

Basically everyone can help us out! :)

Either you provide us with the information marked as required below by sneakernet or mail, or you get on the streets yourself or in a group with GPS devices or even better with SmartPhones log & deploy everything on your own.

To know how the process works or what you need can be read here.

Information	Requirement
Operator	Mandatory
Type of surveillance	Optional
Appearance	Mandatory
Location	Mandatory (Coordinates preferred)
Orientation	Optional
Google Streetview	Optional
Additional Information	Optional

HowTo: Log & Deploy

Here you'll find the information that can be stored for every camera on the map. Gathering and submitting as much information of a location is most valuable.

Note: This PDF Document can be downloaded and printed to facilitate logging on the way.

Log

Data	Option(s)	Note(s)
GPS Coordinates	Longtitude & Latitude	log coordinates directly in front / beneath the object
Direction	0°-360°	/
Angle	0°-360°	/
Appearance	Clearly visible ; Dome ; Built-In ; Cased ; Radar	/
Zoom	Yes / No	/
Orientation	Yes / No	/
Operator	Public / Private	This information can be retrieved from the public register of CNPD.
Operator (Company) Name	/	This information can be retrieved from the public register of CNPD.
Surveillance	Public Area ; Parking ; Traffic ; Shop ; Bank ; Building	/
Description	/	/

Deploy

Create an account here. Click on the power button in the upper right area and the registration form will appear in the upper left corner. If the registration was successful and your account verified by the confirmation link sent to your mailbox short after the registration you can head to step 2.

Go to: http://luxembourg.sous-surveillance.net/ecrire/?exec=camera_edit&new=oui

Fill out all the information you logged beneath and hit the save button at the end of the page.

You'll be forwarded to a finished version of the data you saved. On your left side you see a box with a bold number on in the top of it, beneath you can choose between several options. Every options does what it is called, so to publish select: published online and hit the edit button below it.

Done! You can see your work on the official map: http://luxembourg.sous-surveillance.net/ or with the detailed link to the camera you added: http://luxembourg.sous-surveillance.net/?camera<PUT ID HERE>

Chat & Follow

Mailing List (Main)

IRC: irc.c3l.lu#c3l (Luxembourg)

IRC: irc.indymedia.org#sous-surveillance (France)

Redmine (Project documentation)