Just think how much time, effort and tax payers money goes into implementing these things. England has almost 5,000,000 CCTV cameras watching the public. Originaly designed to make the streets safe and prevent crime. Yet the cameras were only used to solve 3% of crimes that occured in public view.
Not so long ago on the BBC they were reporting on programs on trial in a couple of British cities where the CCTV cameras interact with the people on the streets. One had pre recorded messages spoken by small children that would rebuke you for dropping litter. Another program has actual people with a microphone that tells you off for all manner of antisocial behaviour. This towards the end of last year and havent heard any more of it.
But the technology is pretty impressive these days. Not only is face recognition avaliable, but Gait recognition where you can be recognised with as little as 30 frames of continuous footage of you walking around without ever seeing your face.
http://www.newstatesman.com/200610020022
Not so long ago on the BBC they were reporting on programs on trial in a couple of British cities where the CCTV cameras interact with the people on the streets. One had pre recorded messages spoken by small children that would rebuke you for dropping litter. Another program has actual people with a microphone that tells you off for all manner of antisocial behaviour. This towards the end of last year and havent heard any more of it.
But the technology is pretty impressive these days. Not only is face recognition avaliable, but Gait recognition where you can be recognised with as little as 30 frames of continuous footage of you walking around without ever seeing your face.
http://www.newstatesman.com/200610020022