Comments on: Surveillance scepticism and the world of “pre-crime”

By: thenextwavefutures

thenextwavefutures — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:37:48 +0000

Futurismic reports the introduction in Portsmouth of ‘smart’ CCTV cameras which are programmed to trigger an alert when they identify suspicious patterns of behaviour. More pre-crime: http://futurismic.com/2008/11/29/new-uk-smart-cctv-cameras-detect-precrimes/

Andrew

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