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Olympics to Have Massive Surveillance Network
sharkdba writes "CNN has an article about Olympic digital security. This should be of interest to /. readers since it's a supposedly largest surveillance network ever. Thousands of cameras are combined with software (AI agents?) to look for anomalies. Also words are parsed (scan equivalent to OCR). I understand the idea that if you're in public expect no privacy, but even CNN says: 'Although the state's right to take all necessary measures that it deems necessary is recognized, there is fear that these measures will have a negative impact on basic human rights.'"
..I'm not interested. I mean, they do have security cameras in the female facilities.. right?
"An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program."
Since we in the US will not be able to see it without paying some jackass company a bunch of money and still not be able to see it live, I wonder if we can tap into the surveilance network? :)
Security?
Considering the only branded foods available on ground will be, namely, McDonalds and Coke I don't think how this will fare well for spectators. My stomach feels insecure after eating that garbage! I feel sorry for everybody else. All the special forces, police, etc won't be able to help there. Maybe they need more doctors on hand or perhaps some dieticians?
Well I don't know about human rights, but I bet that the security guards who get to keep an eye on the women's gymnastic events from 100 different angles are pretty happy.
I modded you up. It IS funny
'Although the state's right to take all necessary measures that it deems necessary is recognized, there is fear that these measures will have a negative impact on basic human rights.'"
WTF?
Constitutional Amendment 28:
"The state shall have the right to take all necessary measures that it deems necessary."
A very good point, the Greeks are merely using the powers granted to them by the US Constitution...
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Dude, I'm a New Zealander living in Canada. You just made my day twice.
If you're in Athens during the Olympics, you're online whether you like it or not.
Behold the power of outsourcing - if the technology isn't available to transcribe speech-to-text, hire 10,000 temps from India... Hand them a tape each and a cheap acsii terminal with a word processor. Heck, hire 100,000 if you need to...
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