Happy Security!

Katherine Mangu-Ward | December 2, 2008

Cute security cameras. Making the surveillance state easier to love! From Crunchgear:

Surveillance cameras can sometimes give you a creepy feeling (especially the ones you can’t directly see) but the nation of cute- and friendliness, Japan, now offers two solutions for that problem.

One example of a “friendly” CCTV camera is the Daruma surveillance doll. Daruma is a wish doll in Nippon so that many Japanese people see the little guy in a positive light by nature (even though it says “security camera” on the doll in the video above).

For more on the upsides of zero privacy, read me and reason contributor Declan McCullagh.