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Two decades past, here in Australia, I worked on a proposal for a another party to develop uniform ubiquitous CCTV software infrastructure for the UK as part of
by defrost 1y ago
Two decades past, here in Australia, I worked on a proposal for a another party to develop uniform ubiquitous CCTV software infrastructure for the UK as part of a tender process.
The people I worked for literally tagged it in house as Panopticon.
Big brother social objections aside the one feature I like was ironing out the wrinkles on buses exchanging their most recent footage whenever they parked up at a stop or at lights within wireless range.
The driving intent, at theat time. as I was told, was to be sure to have useful footage survive in the event of another wave of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings
I parted ways not long after that initial period as I expected things to drift in the direction of "Well, now that we have this, how can we use it to increasingly track people other than actual terrorists?"
- stavros 1y agoYeah, I don't like the "it's OK to have tyranny for everyone if it means we prevent a few deaths a decade" choice that's constantly being made.