Could governments and private corporations recognise ANYONE instantly via CCTV? Remember that
- London is the most densely surveilled city in the world
- The Occupy Wallstreet protesters were heavily surveillanced – audio, video, cell phone towers, photos, police checks – everything
- NYC is aiming to be as camera-surveillance dense as London
A new camera technology from Hitachi Hokusai Electric can scan days of camera footage instantly, and find any face which has EVER walked past it.
Its makers boast that it can scan 36 million faces per second.
The technology raises the spectre of governments – or other organisations – being able to ‘find’ anyone instantly simply using a passport photo or a Facebook profile.
The software from Hitachi Hokusai electric can scan through 36 million faces a second looking for its ‘target’. The software can scan through days of CCTV footage almost instantly
The software from Hitachi Hokusai electric can scan through 36 million faces a second looking for its ‘target’. The software can scan through days of CCTV footage almost instantly
The ‘trick’ is that the camera ‘processes’ faces as it records, so that all faces which pass in front of it are recorded and stored instantly.
