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"Smile you're on camera." The recent announcements of development of video surveillance in public spaces could make more frequent this award. Faced with a society that abhors all forms of risk, the trend is moving towards a civilization of safety. The individual angle that can be understood. I myself would love to know who the salopiaux who broke both mirrors of my car (my solex remains intact) last Saturday. From the standpoint of civil liberties, this is a cloud of questions which we can see they are now hidden by a communication policy on the subject does not wish to create a debate.

The CNIL is concerned

CNIL in a recent report back on this issue and its president, Alex Türk , who in the head, warns against the dangers inherent in such devices. The CNIL does not deal exclusively with this issue, of course. It also deals with computer databases, voted the electronic medical record staff ... Read here the synthesis report of its activities. It also alerts on the progression of biometrics . Very exciting application (the show in the CSI shows) in many ways but that nevertheless too many questions.

The most frequently given is that of Britain . An average Londoner is filmed 300 times a day. Not bad when you want to become a movie star, a little less when you want to maintain their autonomy as part of his private life.

What positive effects?

"Who has done nothing wrong, has nothing to fear." Certainly, and that feels snotty, blows his nose. The argument is still a bit short. He suggests that to satisfy his need for security would necessarily accept a loss of freedom, granted or not. This is the price of social peace. However, in return for this freedom lost very real safety gains generated by the video surveillance remain potential. There is no suggestion or perceive that crime and violence (because it does not take place on public spaces) down. Certainly, one can imagine the robbers stop faster, and sometimes at the cost of collateral damage as in Britain last year immediately after the London bombings, but they are stop after mischief. Minority Report n ' is, for now, that a sci-fi. Attributed thenceforward benefits to this system without a priori considering the consequences globally, including the financial point of view. Since the cost of maintenance and operation of a camera is $ 24,000 per year. 24,000 euros per camera, excluding investment! Considerable. It becomes a hyper-lucrative market which SAV is provided by the State playing the guilt as a selling point: "You do not want to save the little children who could be kidnapped in the street and ended up with our cameras. C ' is that? "

By cons, nothing about the causes of crime and violence. To take a medical metaphor, they treat runny nose, not the causes of colds. These are certainly the most complex to solve, but it is also the crux of the long term.  

Moreover, in my opinion, the video surveillance systems suggest that the insecurity of individuals, who are also in Cast, 300 souls who live, are based on actual and serious. Against the paranoia, a network of cameras is not enough to reassure. It extends to all this paranoia of the population. "There is no smoke without fire", the saying goes. There is no fire without firebug either. There is concern here is the arsonist firefighter himself.

Learn more:

Release. http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/societe/265939.FR.php?rss=true

London Conference. http://www.privacyconference2006.co.uk/

The British report on the

The Big Brother Awards

The map of crime in Chicago Live (almost)

The map of sexual predators in Florida

An article on Agoravox

Image from the site of Philip Geluck Expo Rennes which was a very great level.

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