{"id":1104,"date":"2007-08-25T14:18:42","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T14:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/contributions\/mick-meaney\/fascist-police-state-looms-closer-with-%e2%80%9cintelligent-cctv%e2%80%9d\/1104\/"},"modified":"2007-08-25T14:23:15","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T14:23:15","slug":"fascist-police-state-looms-closer-with-%e2%80%9cintelligent-cctv%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/contributions\/mick-meaney\/fascist-police-state-looms-closer-with-%e2%80%9cintelligent-cctv%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascist Police State Looms Closer With \u201cIntelligent CCTV\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Mick Meaney
\nRINF Alternative News<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

A new CCTV system is being trialed at one of the UK\u2019s busiest train stations. Known as \u201cIntelligent CCTV\u201d, the software will monitor and predict human\u00a0behaviour and can be linked to a national police database.<\/p>\n

Sheffield is the first train\u00a0station in the UK to trial the system but a national roll out of the technology is expected,\u00a0creating\u00a020% of all UK CCTV systems using\u00a0these methods<\/a>. So far intelligent CCTV has not proven reliable as recent tests in Germany found face recognition CCTV software failed on three separate occasions<\/a> to successfully recognize 8 out of 10 people, even when standing still and in good light conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIntelligent CCTV technology is so sophisticated it can detect whether a passenger is standing too close to the platform edge, if someone has had a fall, if any luggage has been abandoned or even if a wall has been defaced by graffiti or fly-posting,\u201d said Garry Raven, Managing Director of Midland Mainline.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are confident that this new approach will ensure our passengers feel safer, especially at night, and that it will lead to a reduction in crime at stations. When an incident does occur, our staff will be able to respond much more quickly, giving us a far better chance at catching the perpetrators and obtaining a successful conviction,\u201d said Garry Raven.<\/p>\n

Alan Lipton of ObjectVideo, one of the companies creating this software said: \u201cWe want to teach the software to identify patterns and to recognize certain human activities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis idea involves teaching the computer to recognize complex human actions, such as a fight; a person reaching for a gun; a person falling over; or a room in which everyone has started to run,\u201d Lipton said.<\/p>\n

But who decides what normal behaviour is? We are creating a surveillance society that will one day have its citizens living in fear while machines constantly monitor our behaviour, judge and decide who is a threat and who isn\u2019t, and being treated as a suspect on a daily basis is simply the price we pay for living in Great Britain.<\/p>\n

Intelligent CCTV is just one of the many shocking methods police and government are introducing to \u201cprotect us\u201d, which individually are often tolerated, but when combined they create a terrifying vision of our future.<\/p>\n

This is not a democracy; it is the birth of a fascist police state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News\u00a0 A new CCTV system is being trialed at one of the UK\u2019s busiest train stations. Known as \u201cIntelligent CCTV\u201d, the software will monitor and predict human\u00a0behaviour and can be linked to a national police database. Sheffield is the first train\u00a0station in the UK to trial the system but a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[30],"class_list":{"0":"post-1104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mick-meaney","7":"tag-big-brother"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}