Interesting article and nothing that some of us already know about.
"High–definition CCTV cameras that can identify and track faces from half–a–mile away could turn Britain into a Big Brother society if left unregulated, the first surveillance commissioner has warned.
Andrew Rennison said new technology was being rolled out without public consultation.
It is so intrusive that Britain may be in breach of human rights laws, he warned, and most people are ignorant of how sophisticated technology has become.
"The technology has overtaken our ability to regulate it," Mr Rennison said. ""I'm convinced that if we don't regulate it properly - ie the technological ability to use millions of images we capture - there will be a huge public backlash. It is the Big Brother scenario playing out large. It's the ability to pick out your face in a crowd from a camera which is probably half a mile away."
The former police officer said he was concerned about high-definition cameras "popping up all over the place". He said the Home Office research into facial recognition had reached a 90 per cent success rate and it is improving by the day".
The actual clip art CCTV cam in the article is incorrectly illustrated and misleading, it is the old fashioned conventional type that are becoming almost obsolete.
These are the ones to be concerned about. . They are now appeared perched stands alone on poles at nearly every major intersection in Dublin and other cities and towns.
These cameras can fully pan, tilt and zoom 360°, can be fully upgradable to distant facial recognition and ANPR. (Automatic number plate recognition) They are the exact same type of
cameras that are used on police surveylance vehicles at demonstrations.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9583251/Hi-tech-CCTV-can-recognise-faces-from-half-a-mile-away.html
