Claire Rand wrote:
> Smolley wrote:
> >"Webmanager_CritEst" wrote in message
> news:2b54c67d-6909-4cb6-b991-c1c8725ff188@s13g2000prd.googlegroups.com
> ...
> > > Police chiefs: Give us CCTV clues to criminals' behaviour
> > >
> > > Last updated at 23:19pm on 22nd March 2008
> > >
> > > Police chiefs are demanding full access to Britain's 30,000 local
> > > council CCTV cameras so they can analyse physical movements that
> > > could help identify criminals.
> > >
> > > Using high-tech facial-recognition technology, they want to
> > > identify suspects and even examine their behaviour as they look
> > > for tell-tale signs of someone planning a crime.
> > >
> > > Sophisticated computer systems linked to the Police National
> > > Computer can now compare images taken by the cameras with
> > > thousands of mugshots and identify a suspect in seconds ...
> > >
> > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_a
> > > rticle_id=542416&in_page_id=1770
> > >
> > > *****
> > >
> > > WM
> > > www.critest.com
> >
> >
> > Not including the hoodies then.
>
> have they seriously thought how many 'hits' such a system will bring
> up, and thre manpower required to review it all?
>
> even the general population who don't care too much about privacy
> will sit up and notice the shear cost.
>
> oh and the fact that there will be even fewer plods about, crime will
> have gone up, but there will be a new series of 'police stop kill' so
> thats alright then.
>
> sigh
Yes, and I made the mistake of entering London the other day.
Listened to one of the local London radio stations, and there was a
government advert for the new terror hotline (or whatever). At first I
thought the advert was a spoof, but it was genuine. It went along the
lines of
"if you see someone taking a photo, you do not need to worry if it is
innocent or not, just call us and we will sort it out. If you see
someone buying large quantities of goods, you do not need to worry if
it is innocent or not, just call us and we will sort it out."
This country is turning more like the old GDR / USSR with every passing
day.
But if any of you notice any one taking a photo, especially of things
like Parlianment or the Tower of London, better get calling.
Oh and that old lady, buying a large quantity of pototoes in Tesco the
other day, I guess I better phone, just in case, I mean the green bits
can contain cyanide right?, obviously she could be a terrorist
collecting as many green parts of spuds as possible, to mount a hideous
poisoning campaign. |