Berkeley’s “respectful” surveillance cameras disregard faces
By Darren Murph | May 5, 2007
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
While blatantly spying on us is one thing, attempting to freshen it up by suggesting a venerating alternative is bordering on preposterous. As we’ve seen at the Sky Harbor airport, officials are trying nearly anything they can to make forthright invasions of privacy seem a bit less offensive, and a CCTV camera developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley is next up to bat. The so-called “respectful cameras” are aimed at places of employment, where specified workers would wear a given marker that could be recognized by the camera. After being identified, the camera would then spot out the face of the individual to provide some sort of false assurance that their identity is magically safe. The best, er, worse part, however, is that the system doesn’t actually delete the face beneath the circle, as it “allows for the privacy oval to be removed from a given set of footage in the event of an investigation.” So much for dodging Big Brother.
[Via SciFiTech]
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