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Scientists in the UK are advancing new smart CCTV technology capable of identifying and locking on to criminals or potential criminals. The system, under development at Kingston University, employs artificial intelligence to be able to recognise unusual behaviour and can track individual subjects across more than one camera at a time.

While privacy protestors have expressed concern over the way this highly-advanced technology could be deployed, those behind its creation are adamant that it would give security officers a novel way of isolating potential threats from a sea of innocent bystanders.

The system effectively teaches a linked computer how to identify particular forms of so-called trigger events. "In riot situations, it could be people running - a crowd might converge in a certain place", Kingston University's Doctor James Orwell explained, adding: "If somebody pulls out a gun, people tend to run in all sorts of directions. These movements can be detected."

Smart CCTV Criminal ID

Once the technology has established that a trigger event has taken place, it pulls together earlier footage of the subject, before going on to record more.

This smart CCTV criminal identification process therefore provides a comprehensive record of his/her actions over a wide timeframe.

In further comments, Doctor Orwell supplied a example of how this technique could work, in practice."If a window was smashed and shop looted in a town centre street, the technology would trace back to see who smashed the window and then retrace his steps to see when and where he entered the town centre", he said.

"The technology would also trace where the man had gone after leaving the scene."

Intelligent CCTV System

Kingston University's intelligent CCTV system is one aspect of the much wider ADDPRIV programme, though which organisations across the EU are actively researching new security solutions addressing public privacy concerns at large.

Any footage recorded by the system that features innocent members of the public is automatically deleted - a potential boon to police forces who can then have access to relevant crime data, without having to first study hours of unrelated footage.

"We're seeking to use surveillance to help control society, while avoiding the Big Brother nightmare of everybody being seen all the time", Orwell concluded.

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US crime predicting technology tests draw Minority Report comparisons

The US Department of Homeland Security has begun testing crime predicting technology that is drawing comparisons to the science fiction film Minority Report.

Using cameras and sensors the "pre-crime" system measures and tracks changes in a person's body movements, the pitch of their voice and the rhythm of their speech.

It also monitors breathing patterns, eye movements, blink rate and alterations in body heat, which are used to assess an individual's likelihood to commit a crime.

The Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) programme is already being tested on a group of government employees who volunteered to act as guinea pigs.

The first test was carried out at an undisclosed location in the north-eastern United States.

According to the Department of Homeland Security it was not at an airport, but was at a "large venue that is a suitable substitute for an operational setting".

Ultimately, the system could be used not only at airports but at border crossings and any large scale public events like sports matches or political conventions.

However, civil liberties groups have called it a "pseudo technological approach" and raised privacy concerns.

In the 2002 Hollywood blockbuster Minority Report, Tom Cruise plays a police officer in a specialised "PreCrime" department.

Psychics are used to give detectives foreknowledge of someone's criminal intentions.

The FAST system is instead based on equipment including infrared cameras and pressure pads to detect fidgeting.

Details of the system were obtained through freedom of information laws by the Electronic Privacy Information Centre (Epic) based in Washington DC.

A document they obtained said that "sensors will non-intrusively collect video images, audio recordings, and psychophysiological measurements".

Ginger McCall, a lawyer for the non-profit group, told CBS News: "If it were deployed against the public, it would be very problematic.

"They should do a privacy impact assessment. Especially if they're going to be rolling this out at the airport."

Department of Homeland Security spokesman Peter Boogaard told the technology website CNET that "preliminary research" had been carried out to see if the technology could detect signs of stress, which can be associated with intent to do harm.

According to the documents obtained by Epic, the next trial may involve volunteer members of the public with experience in the food service industry.

They would be asked to work at a "one day VIP event" and some of them would be told to do something wrong, like smuggling in a recording device. The technology would then be used to identify the perpetrators.

A Homeland Security spokesman said the FAST experiments were voluntary and did not store any information from those involved.

He added: "If it were ever to be deployed, there would be no personally-identifiable information captured from people going through the system."

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