Zero Hedge
The top four cities all belong to India, which is the world’s second largest country by population. Surveillance cameras are playing a major role in the country’s efforts to reduce crimes against women.
Further down the list are cities from a variety of countries. One of these is Russia, which has expanded its use of surveillance cameras in recent years. Given the country’s track record of human rights violations, activists are worried that facial recognition technology could become a tool of oppression.
The only U.S. city on the list is Los Angeles, which contains some of the country’s wealthiest neighborhoods and municipalities. That includes Beverly Hills, which according to the Los Angeles Times, has over 2,000 cameras for its population of 32,500. That translates to about 62 cameras per 1,000 people, meaning that Beverly Hills would finish at #2 in the global ranking if it were listed as a separate entity. More
I understand, that is my friend understands, that there are a lot of different kinds of surveillance cameras deployed. My friend wants to know if any/many/most are susceptible to either temporary malfunction or permanent damage to the CCDs (or other image capture chips) by a 2.25 watt (2250 milliwatt) blue laser, and how long the exposure needs to be.
Nah.
They didn’t steal their Truckers & Farmers Money.
China tried to employ facial recognition. Unfortunately one Chin looks just like another. Yea I know, Racist,
Since many of these surveillance cameras are catching “youth” “teens” and other “oppressed class” individuals in the act of theft, rape, murder, and general mayhem, look for terms to describe said cameras like “problematic” “racist” “white supremacist” from many democrat politicians & attorney generals going forward.
An inconvenient truth…
Brad, facial recognition IS indeed racist, since it is more difficult for the technology to discern between black folk.
Apple has been struggling with this for years.
You are correct though, much easier for a chinaman to blend in with other chinamen.
I had a car broken into in Dublin, Ireland years back.
Company items were stolen from my trunk.
The cops had the whole thing on video tape.
They knew who did it, went to them and said “hey mate, it was an American you stole from so give it back.”
They did, I got my stuff back.
Uncle Al, it seems there must be some frequency & amplitude in the electromagnetic spectrum that will disrupt a camera lens.
Just think of sound cancelling headphones.
They mimic the opposite sine-wave of the unwanted noise to cancel it out.
Use something similar for cameras.
Or perhaps some decent RF noise?
Variable frequency drives with adjustable harmonics…
Good thought exercise that is no doubt just that.
Certainly not used for elicit purposes Mr. FBI agent who might be reading this.
Loco
They could have used some surveillance here. Maybe they had it. But there’s no Fing way this was random. The entire story stinks like last months Tuna.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/two-people-shot-outside-lee-zeldins-new-york-home-bullet-lands-near-teen-daughters/
I don’t know, but it seems that these cameras just make it so they don’t have to have many officers on the street. They just look at the video and watch people get assaulted. Big help that is. As has been said before, police are just there to take reports after the fact.
Sorry but the most surveilled cities in the U.S.
Atlanta
Chicago
Washington D.C.
San Francisco
San Diego
https://www.securitysales.com/news/cities-most-surveilled-america/