Is it wacked that the North Shore is 95 percent documented with some type of video now?

[SlicedFeet]

We are way beyond 1984, funny farm, etc...even traffic lights may be on
.Rec. China is an A.I. Facial recognition state....is Foodland still mellow? Does ABC stores have disposable microphone in there bags recording walkaway conversations on the experience?

we may all be cookies away from this.

 

[GromsDad]

We are all being watched just about everywhere so it shouldn't be surprising. There are nearly 100 public web cams on line of my sleepy little beach town covering almost every beach and popular place. Additionally on a tour of the local police station we visited a room that was a wall of television monitors where officers sit and watch countless surveillance cameras.

 

[QuadFin]

"NYPD's Domain Awareness System, the surveillance network of more than 18,000 interconnected cameras"

Not strange because all have phone cameras now and always people are recording.

 

[TheEl]

This is not limited to the north shore.

 

[McHatin]

The video quality is starting to get much better too. Before with the shitty livestream you couldn't even tell if it was choppy or clean

 

[craigj532]

There are basically three or four spots on the North Shore where every wave is documented. 90% of the time photo/video sheep don’t bother with anyplace else.

 

[Goodfish]

I thought you were talking about the vloggers. Everyone seems to be doing it there now...

 

[Jonahbrah]

If a surfer gets a wave on the North Shore, and that wave has less than 10,000 views, did the surfer actually get the wave?

 

[HarryLopez]

Keep those cameras focused on those spots cause there are no other spots worthy of surfing on Oahu. Sharky, onshore and junk 90% of the time.

 

[sponge]

Our old alt.surfing newsgroup used to ponder on the virtues and challenges of surf cams back in 1996. Back then, they were typically frame grabs of select beaches. Surf Check was one of the early adopters of streaming videos at surf spots around 1999. Dave Blake used to rant about protecting his precious OB (San Fran) from surveillance and ultimately increased crowds.

My how times have changed.