Lip-Reading Surveillance Cameras

mrogers sends us to Infowars for the following news from the UK, "which is fast becoming the front line of the war on privacy": "'Read my lips..."' used to be a figurative saying. Now the British government is considering taking it literally by adding lip reading technology to some of the four million or so surveillance cameras in order identify terrorists and criminals by watching what everyone says. Perhaps the lip-reading cameras and the shouting cameras will find something to talk about."

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[IgnoramusMaximus]

I think the major difference here as opposed to say the USA, is that vast majority of people in the UK wouldn't consider their license plate being registered on a police database somewhere as an invasion of their privacy. People in the UK are worried about corporations having their personal data, not the government; whereas it seems in the USA, the opposite is the case.

Both are specific cases of "extraordinarily powerful organizations whose activities are opaque to the general populace and which organizations have been removed out of regular citizens' control". Most multi-national (and many national) corporations have finances, resources and political power exceeding that of a majority of individual nations of Earth. That alone puts them on the same level as governments of major nations in the scope of damage and abuses they are capable of. Also an increasing number of corporations are mobilizing private armies.

So in essence both types of concern are equally valid.