Police in U.S. say technology is helpful but researchers say Canada should hesitate before using it
I wonder how disastrously bad things will need to get before it finally breaks through into public consciousness that maybe putting surveillance cameras everywhere was a bad idea. I expect we’ll find out in a couple of decades.
This isn’t really the issue.
The real issue is that people have become so soft, so INCREDIBLY dependant on convenience, that they have given up all control. Having autonomy/privacy/ownership over your own environment is just too much work. It’s easier to just let someone else handle the surveillance system for you. What could go wrong?
This issue of complacency plagues just about everything, from cloud computing and banking to transportation and housing.
If I have cameras… I really don’t mind supplying the footage if police ask. But I really would like that they ask. And I REALLY don’t want them to have footage that they don’t ask for and don’t obtain a warrant for.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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Some of those in attendance saw a demo of Fusus — a paid service that makes it easier for police to access privately owned security camera footage from residents and businesses.
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The cameras, Barth said, are a “time-saver” for lower-priority calls like property crimes and make it easy for police to give video to lawyers requesting footage of car crashes.
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She points to Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition tool Canadian police services secretly used until privacy watchdogs ordered them to stop.
Tusikov said Fusus would be a “disproportionate response” to crimes like auto theft, which has been surging in Canada, and likely wouldn’t help with intimate partner violence, which has been declared an epidemic in Hamilton and other cities across the country.
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CBC contacted Canadian police services at the Real Time Crime Center Operations and Tech Integration conference, asking if any of them use Fusus or are exploring using it or similar technology.
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“We would especially encourage this given that Fusus appears to involve real-time monitoring and unmediated access to private surveillance cameras which may come with a greater risk of intrusion into the privacy of individuals,” the IPC said.
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i’m tech and my cam password is 123456. no, i joke, i have leave blank my password.