On a recent trip to new York City, [sherri] noticed the plentiful “NYPD security Camera” signage. She Ò on her bit sousveillance tour as well as did some digging to discover more about the system. According to a recent NY publish article, the city means to have 2,000 cameras installed by 2009. Each system has at least two cameras, an onboard DVR, battery backup, a webserver, as well as wireless connection. The CrimeEye product line is produced by overall Recall—the people who brought you BABYWATCH. While the business site doesn’t listing any type of specs, we discovered a cost listing that was provided to new York State. Each system listings for $28-39K. They can have picture sensors as much as 2 megapixels, hold 30fps video for 5-15days, as well as transmit wirelessly on the 4.9GHz public security band.
[sherri] wonders what systems are in location to assurance the security of the camera network as well as to make sure the data is handled properly. We’ve seen poor implementations of cameras with webservers
in the past. She suggests a third-party system to confirm security, operation, as well as storage. right now there’s no reason the government won’t utilize footage for invasive data mining. As a publicly funded system tracking public areas, we see no reason why the video streams from these gadgets shouldn’t be commonly available.
[Thanks Tendency]