this definitely falls under "people watching people"... the consequences of this are probably enourmous, if yet to be seen... as a surveillance issue this is highly interesting... and provides a lot of material for discussion on data protection, privacy rights, and social sorting... "Mobile vigilantes snap sex pests in action... " Observer from 30th April 2006 http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1764585,00.html best nilz -- Dr. Nils Zurawski Universität Hamburg Inst. für kriminologische Sozialforschung Allende-Platz 1 20146 Hamburg Germany tel. +49 (0) 40 42838 6185 fax. +49 (0) 40 42838 2328 Projekt zu Videoüberwachung: http://www.surveillance-studies.org