Alexander Hayes wrote:
>Whilst I acknowledge that CCTV is nearing an end of of it's
nomenclature shelf-life, I wonder at what other terms might better
describe the rapid deployment of wearable, back-to-base, location and
facial/object recognition technologies such as the Taser Axon Flex
across policing and incident response teams globally.
Andrew A. Adams wrote:
> ... a great example of cultural differences, and of the different
>capacities for expression of different languages ...
At 3:37 +0000 17/3/12, Clive Norris wrote:
>Why not 'video-surveillance' as the French would say ...
The Australian Privacy Foundation confronted issues like this when we
drafted what became the 'APF Policy Statement re Visual Surveillance,
incl. CCTV':
http://www.privacy.org.au/Papers/CCTV-1001.html
We said that:
>The term[Visual Surveillance (VS)] is used here to encompass the
>capture and/or projection of images and video, whether or not with
>audio, whether or not the images and/or audio are recorded, whether
>or not they are subsequently disclosed and/or published, and whether
>the image-resolution is high- or low-quality.
>The focus is on visual surveillance conducted in a systematic
>manner, as is generally the case with its use by organisations. The
>scope is not intended to encompass casual use of cameras by
>individuals, which gives rise to privacy concerns that are of a
>different nature and gravity from institutionalised uses.
>The focus is on data that represents images and any associated
>sound. Structured and textual data deriving from such images,
>including meta-data describing them, are also a source of
>considerable privacy concern, and must be subject to data protection
>provisions.
>The Principles enunciated below also have broader application, to
>surveillance conducted using any part of the electromagnetic
>spectrum including that outside the human-visible range, such as
>infra-red, ultra-violet and X-rays.
This scope-definition has the happy advantage of encompassing:
- wearable / point-of-view VS (although not 'casual' sousveillance
because of the proviso 'conducted in a systematic manner').
- whether or not back-to-base
- whether or not location-aware
- whether or not it incorporates facial/object recognition capability
[Declaration: APF has just recruited Alex Hayes onto its Board.]
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