Smart Cameras Detect Crime, Erode Privacy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 27, 2006 @04:04AM from the unblinking-eye dept.

MattSparkes writes "Smart surveillance systems could identify crimes as they take place, if a computer vision system developed at the University of Texas goes into production. The system is capable of classifying behaviour as friendly or violent. In the past there have been attempts to spot unusual behaviour, but this required subsequent user classification. These new systems may keep us more secure, but is it worth sacrificing our privacy for? And will we see false positives, where police cars screech to a halt beside hugging couples?"

1 of 223 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:Just because someone pushes or punches... by garcia · 2006-10-27 06:14 · Score: 0, Redundant

Alarms, motion sensors, and locks are irrelevant to this discussion as they don't record your movements. CCTV is the same thing but requires human interaction to determine what happened. It doesn't have a computer system running behind it to create false positives of "inappropriate" behavior.