(Mis)Uses of Technology

(Mis)Uses of Technology

by Carlo Longino


Filed Under:
cctv, crime, smart cctv, surveillance



'Smart' CCTV Supposedly Recognizes Crime

from the don't-look-suspicious-in-public dept

A city in England has installed a "smart CCTV" system, which is claimed to be able to detect certain behavior or incidents (via The Register) and to alert camera operators to follow up. The system is supposed to give operators the ability to monitor large numbers of cameras at once, more than they can do just by watching TV screens. This type of technology has been around for a little while, but doesn't seem to have set the world alight just yet. It's doubtful that these devices will actually make any significant reduction in crime (perhaps predicting and preventing crime comes in version 2.0), and will serve merely as an excuse to blanket more and more areas with CCTV coverage, putting wider and wider swathes of people's lives under surveillance.

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  1. Dec 2nd, 2008 @ 9:25pm
    by Anonymous Coward

    New Intentional False Positive law in 3 .. 2 .. 1

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  2. Dec 2nd, 2008 @ 9:35pm

    Ugggghhhh

    by El Reg Dispiser

    How much more tripe from the farktards at el reg are we gonna see today?

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  3. Dec 2nd, 2008 @ 11:06pm
    by Anonymous Coward

    Just wait until they can detect certain behaviors through your own TV.

    (reply to this comment) (link to this comment)

  4. Dec 3rd, 2008 @ 1:07am

    Re:

    by Nick

    ...or the womb.

    (reply to this comment) (link to this comment)

  5. Dec 3rd, 2008 @ 1:26am

    Doesn't seem too groundbreaking...

    by Sean

    Seeing as how CCTV systems can already recognise movement, it doesn't seem too much of an advance to program it to recognise different velocities.

    It doesn't actually recognises crime, it just alerts the operator to certain criteria-meeting factors (excessive movement, any movement in a zone etc.)
    So negative marks on the sensationalised headline there...

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  6. Dec 3rd, 2008 @ 9:41am

    easy solution

    by Mike

    Where I live they only fix the things so many times before they give up, a clump of mud or wet toilet paper takes them out very easily.

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  7. Dec 11th, 2008 @ 5:07pm

    I thought it's chinese goverment tv. hhhh

    (reply to this comment) (link to this comment)

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