Vancouver Riots: Vigilantism The Dark Side Of Social Media

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- VANCOUVER - Stories have been mounting of people photographed and videotaped in the chaos of Vancouver's Stanley Cup riot who've had their lives upended — lost jobs, endangered sports careers, physical threats, online ridicule.It's only likely to grow, as an online public shaming campaign yields more photos and names every day and police prepare to use some of those images as evidence in criminal cases.The phenomenon is raising new questions about privacy and surveillance in a world where few public spaces are free from the gaze of a cellphone camera, particularly when those public spaces turn into crime scenes.

 

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