Airport Video Surveillance Goes Hi-Tech

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday May 17, 2006 @02:38PM from the just-what-do-you-think-you're-doing-dave dept.

conq writes "BusinessWeek has a piece on new tech used in the airport of Helsinki to monitor behavior and alert people when predefined situations arise. From the article: "The system can alert staff to events which may need further investigation without the need for every camera to be observed by staff. For example, suspect packages or vehicles left unattended will be flagged up and staff alerted. Similarly if the system detects queues growing beyond a pre-defined length in the security zone staff will be alerted of the need to open another lane""

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Re:And suspiciousness in that country is ... by DMNT · 2006-05-17 23:16 · Score: 0, Troll

Unfortunately, based on first hand experiences, the people in that country do not score very high on tolerating diversity, so you may end up being on the suspect list for wrong skin color, hair color, facial features, unusual last name for the country mentioned on your passport... and that was already on the times of more 'analog' CCTV.
You must be a Swede, right?

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