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Smart Cameras To Predict Crimes

Posted by chrisd on from the the-computer-is-your-protector dept.

hairybacchus writes: "The Independent News is reporting that scientists at Kingston University in London have developed video processing software that is able to predict behavior patterns of the people on-screen. They say it will be used to alleviate congestion in the London Underground or alert police to potential muggings. I wonder how long it will be before this is combined with face-recognition technology? It's spooky." I can't wait. "We searched you because the computer told us to." Trust the Computer.

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  1. Re:You slashdotters are a bunch of cynics.. by Jim+Norton · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And rightly so! Ever since the settling of the New World we have experienced racial/ethnic/religious oppression, corporate power-mongers using their money and influence to squash our rights and freedoms, magic bullet theories, the use of fear to convince us to sign our freedoms away (eg. 09/11 "terrorism", crime) among other things. All of them committed by those in power.

    It all boils down to whether you trust them to responsibly use the power they have in cases like this.

    Well, do you?

    STUDY THE PAST

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    -- Jim