Posted on 06/07/2012 8:28:58 AM PDT by ColdOne
New surveillance cameras will use computer eyes to find 'pre crimes' by detecting suspicious behaviour and calling for guards
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In its latest project BRS Labs is to install its devices on the transport system in San Francisco, which includes buses, trams and subways.
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The company says will put them in 12 stations with up to 22 cameras in each, bringing the total number to 288.
The cameras will be able to track up to 150 people at a time in real time and will gradually build up a ‘memory’ of suspicious behaviour to work out what is suspicious.
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Like the Tom Cruise movie ?
They need to put a bunch of those cameras in Parliament, ASAP.
Once again, the truth comes from foreign media, since the hacks here in the U.S. won’t report it.
Groups of pranksters will probably get great sport out of “punking the camera” and bringing out the bobbies, with little or no actual crime being planned.
Cyber profiling?
How do the programmers determine suspicious behavior?
Just one of the long line of incremental steps to what some call Orwell’s 1984. Capture, recognition, identification, pre-cognition. Eventually, the system will progress to indictment, trial and conviction/sentencing in one fell digital-swoop....future looks so bright, I gotta wear shades /s
They are putting similar things in here in the US, including things which bark out orders.
“Person of Interest” brought to life.
But with no John Reese to intercede and deter the greater conspiracy behind the perpetuators.
And will they turn them off when it is proven that they are “hitting” on illegals, blacks and “progressive liberals?”
Bigoted cameras!
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They’re going to call actual human guards? Why can’t we just have electronic police, judges, juries, and firing squads so that the unpredictable nature of humans is completely eliminated? I’d feel much safer in a world like that.
"The truly paranoid are clever enough to not act paranoid."
What will it decide when it looks at people wearing “hoodies”......
I can forsee a “minority sensitivity training program” being ordered by the courts in this computers future....
Perhaps the computer system will be invited to the Whitehouse for a “Beer Summit”.....
“You’re not paranoid if they really are out to get you.”
“The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed—would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper—the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.”
~1984
They’ll have THX 1138 robot police instead!
In my best Ron White voice...
“That’s profiling......... and profiling is WRONG!”
These cameras will be racist.
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