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Lip-Reading Surveillance Cameras

Posted by kdawson on from the open-the-pod-bay-doors dept.

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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  1. This will all work fine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Until someone invents stealth technology to circumvent it. Like covering your mouth with your hand.

    1. Re:This will all work fine by olego · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You know, I used to think that everyone who said that was being sarcastic and was merely making fun of the government... Until I watched a couple of press releases by the government and realised that these things are actually said.

      And that really freaked me out.

  2. obvious by eclectro · · Score: 5, Funny

    When the lip reading cameras come online, they will see that everyone is repeating this sequence of numbers;

    09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

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  3. Countermeasure by jbeaupre · · Score: 5, Funny

    You could easily defeat the system by wearing a burqa or other type of veil. Then you'll never be mistaken for a terrorist. Right?

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    1. Re:Countermeasure by sexybomber · · Score: 5, Funny

      You could easily defeat the system by wearing a burqa or other type of veil.
      Or a Guy Fawkes mask, if you were so inclined. It's more stylish, at least.
  4. Better Solution by Billosaur · · Score: 5, Funny

    Train yourself to talk like out-of-synch karate movies...

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  5. The bad thing is by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 5, Funny

    it won't work against politicians, because they talk out of their asses, not their mouth.

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  6. Re:Written constitution and bill of rights. by psykocrime · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Constitution ( and the Magna Carta, and the Articles of Confederation, etc., etc.) is just a piece of paper. It can't do anything to defend our rights... we have to do that ourselves. Once the government has made the decision to step outside of
    the bounds set for it (by said Constitution) the only choice is for "We The People" to put it back in those bounds, or destroy it.

    Revolution Calling? Yeah, you could say that... But we haven't reached a critical mass yet, where enough people *care* about what's happening to do anything about it.

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  7. Re:It's a scam by techno-vampire · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've some hearing loss, and recently took a series of classes on coping with it. Part of it was experimenting with lip reading. Not only do many words look similar, letters formed mostly with the tongue look identical. Look in the mirror, sometime, and say the letters t, c, g and z, and try to tell which one is which. You can't. Now, imagine security droids looking at what the computer thinks somebody is saying and taking it as the literal truth because, as we all know, computers never lie. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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