On the BBC
Bus CCTV could predict assaults
The system would monitor suspicious behaviour on buses
CCTV security systems could soon spot an assault on a bus before it happens, according to a major research project.(from the BBC)
🙂
OK, admittedly, this is what is more often known as “vapourware” than a fully-working Minority Report system.
Although much of the work is currently at the theoretical stage, the team from the university’s newly-founded Centre for Secure Information Technologies predict that within five years their software will be able to profile people as they board a bus. (from the BBC)
I bet they haven’t even bred the mutants for the tank yet.
“Profile” bus passengers troublemakers? Through CCTV? With software that does exactly what a bus driver thinking “I don’t like the look of him” would do?
Leaping to conclusions on the basis of appearance and movements?
I can do that for free. I try to stop myself doing it because I believe the more accurate word is “stereotyping,” rather than “profiling,” but then, I’m only human…..
Oh right, that was why Minority Report seemed such a good choice of title. 😀
I read recently that Londoners are the most watched people, from various security cameras all throughout the city. But that it hasn’t actually worked to make them safer or improved crime fighting.
Sounds like the UK police and security forces have the same approach as the Abstinence Only crowd in the US: Let’s do more of what doesn’t work!