Lights, camera, action! Cash a check, buy a slurpee, or doubledown on eleven, and you’re on someone’s screen.
No need to audition for Survivor mark III if you want to be on television, just run a red light. Better yet, attend the Superbowl or simply walk through Tampa, Florida. There, the dispassionate eye of a surveillance camera scans your face, and far away in some windowless room, a computer compares your mug against a database of known miscreants. Who needs fingerprints and forensics when cops can spot a crime as-it-happens on close circuit television?
Terrorists and deadbeat dads be warned, George Orwell’s long awaited Candid Camera has arrived, and it’s watching us all: the good, the bad, the law-abiding and the blissfully unaware.
(Hosted by John Donvan)
Guests:
Bob Lack, Group Leader of the Newham Emergency and Security Services
Dr. Joseph Atick, President and CEO of Visionics, the company which makes the “Face-It” software used in Newham and Tampa
Simon Davies, Director General of Privacy International, Amitai Etzioni author of “The Limits of Privacy” and David Sobel, General Counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center