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Lip Reading Surveillance Cameras To Stop Terror

Concerned | 01.05.2007 11:09 | Free Spaces | Repression | Terror War | London

Cameras may be used to read your lips for anti-terrorist reasons.

Modern CCTV camera: Who is watching you and your kids?
Modern CCTV camera: Who is watching you and your kids?

lip reading is invasion of privacy: conversing in public will require a screen
lip reading is invasion of privacy: conversing in public will require a screen

CCTV to read your private conversations?
CCTV to read your private conversations?

conversing with a friend privately? so you thought;
conversing with a friend privately? so you thought;


Electronic Design is reporting that the Home Office is interested in a project being pursued by a senior lecturer in computer vision at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England:

' Computer-based lip-reading technology would help video surveillance systems spot people planning a crime or terror attack by literally watching suspects’ lips for clues. Once it finds someone speaking certain key words or sentences, the system would automatically send an alert message to a central console, mobile phone, or other communications device. Police or security agents could then be dispatched to the scene to question the individual. '




see the article here:

 http://www.infowars.net/articles/april2007/270407lip_reading.htm

Concerned


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