Recently I saw the sad news from a friend that they had, had their prized possession and work tool stolen from them, it got me thinking, well that sucks in this day and age there has to be an easy way to trace it. In a quick chat I mentioned about registering the serial numbers on a data base of stolen products. I had heard it mentioned before, not sure what if any success would come from it but better to do something rather than nothing.
Then it came to me, why is it not easy to flag a stolen camera down by the metadata is it possible? And then I came across http://www.stolencamerafinder.com/ which appears to be a paid for service which is in the development stages. But working with the manufactures and imaging sites such as Flickr could we be on to something here. Is the way forward to prevent gear theft making it possible to flag a cameras serial number as stolen and when that image is uploaded to YouTube, Facebook or Flickr a notification is sent with the location data to the local authorities making it easy for police to recover stolen property and to trace the people behind the offence.
With a simple site put in place accessible for stores that purchase second hand goods, and enforcements put in place to make sure they are used the retrieval of stolen cameras would surely increase significantly?
What do you think?
With a simple site put in place accessible for stores that purchase second hand goods, and enforcements put in place to make sure they are used the retrieval of stolen cameras would surely increase significantly?
What do you think?
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