FC: Tampa police test face recognition cameras on city streets

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Sun Jul 01 2001 - 22:24:52 PDT

  • Next message: Declan McCullagh: "FC: More on Nader, privacy hypocrisy, globalization, and Cato"

    Orlando seems to have similar plans (alas, the article is offline now):
    >http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/orl-asec-bigbro-033101.story?coll=orl-news-headlines
    >Technology developed by the University of Central Florida will allow new 
    >cameras that the city of Orlando plans to keep the heart of downtown under 
    >constant surveillance. [...] UCF Professor Mubarak Shah and students in 
    >the schools computer-science department created the software that runs the 
    >system. They designed it to identify individuals in a crowd, track them 
    >and identify some activities, such as running or falling. Future 
    >advancements migt detect pickpockets or physical attacks.
    
    AP article:
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010701/aponline172248_000.htm
    
    Background on Super Bowl surveillance:
    http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=tampa
    
    ---
    
    From: "Shirl Kennedy" <sdkat_private>
    To: <declanat_private>
    Subject: Ybor police cameras go spy-tech
    Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 15:07:29 -0400
    
    "Using new software in surveillance cameras, police go high-tech in their
    search for the bad guys."
    http://www.sptimes.com/News/063001/TampaBay/Ybor_police_cameras_g.shtml
    
    Hoo boy...
    
    Shirl Kennedy
    
    
    
    
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list
    You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice.
    To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html
    This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Sun Jul 01 2001 - 22:47:19 PDT