‘Stasi-style citizen spy game’ website attacked

CAMPAIGNERS yesterday criticised a new website that allows anyone in Europe to monitor commercial CCTV footage live online as a “Stasi-style citizen spy game” that should be banned.

Internet Eyes will pay up to £1,000 (€1,160) to subscribers who regularly report suspicious activity such as shoplifting.

But civil rights campaigners said the website, which launched yesterday, “marks another dubious chapter in Britain’s surveillance society”.