Seeing Crimes About to Happen?
LONDON (Reuters) - A sophisticated new surveillance system may soon be tipping off police and security officers about crimes before they even occur, a science magazine said. British researchers have developed a means of spotting a potential shoplifter or mugger, a car thief lurking in a parking lot or someone about to commit suicide, perhaps by throwing themselves in front of a train. People contemplating these acts behave differently from others and their actions can be predicted mathematically, New Scientist magazine said. Although it is still early days, the system designed by Steve Maybank of the University of Reading in southern England and David Hogg at the University of Leeds in the north of the country, is already attracting attention. The researchers plan to develop a range of security features to spot criminal behavior in a project funded by the European Commission. The system will be connected to closed circuit televisions and send an alarm to security guards or the police if it sees something suspicious.My Sardonic Thoughts
- So now the police and security officers will be able to identify criminals by the way they look?
- Are they going to now arrest people based on this new technology?
- What if you just have a quirk that makes you look like that?
- What kind of discrimination suit is this opening up?
