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Date: 1998-10-15
UK: Digitales Affenhaus eingeweiht-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- updating 98.10.14/2 98.8.30/1 UK: Digitales Affenhaus eingeweiht 140 fixe Kameras und 11 mobile Einheiten werden, wie im August berichtet, den Londoner Stadtteil East Ham ab sofort in ein digitales Affenhaus verwandeln. Die Kameras werden über das Mandrake-System verbunden sein, einer Datenbank mit den biometrischen Daten von straffällig gewordenen Personen. Das System hat nach Angaben der Hersteller eine Fehlerrate von 20 Prozent. Woraus geschlossen muss, dass jeder Fünfte unschuldig in die Mühlen des Überwachungsstaats geraten wird. -.-.---.--.-.---.--.-.---.--.-.---.--.-.---.- October 13, 1998 A revolutionary surveillance system that can pin-point known criminals as they walk along in a crowd is being put to the test in a London borough. The Mandrake face recognition system will seek out 'target faces' in the closed circuit television (CCTV) footage in the Newham area from Wednesday. Councillor Ian Corbett said the decision to go ahead with the £60,000 six-month trial was made in response to the concerns of local residents. .... But fears of innocent people being identified by mistake have lead civil liberties groups to condemn the system and call for it to be tightly regulated. ... Newham has a network of 140 street cameras as well as 11 mobile camera units. Images beamed into the council's security centre in East Ham will be compared with a database of target faces supplied by police. The system can isolate the targets from the crowds of people appearing on CCTV. When a match is made the computer highlights the target and sounds an alarm. An operator then checks the image and decides if it is necessary to contact the police. ... Mandrake is the first identification system to be able to work from moving pictures. It has been designed by Software Systems International which has been concentrating on identification systems for several years. .... "The ability to capture a moving face is quite a new innovation and makes a lot of difference to being able to work with things like CCTV," Software Systems marketing manager Pat Oldcorn said. ... It is the risk of error that has the civil liberties group Liberty most concerned. "The accuracy of facial mapping is very limited," campaigns manager Liz Parratt said. "For example, you need only to look at a handful of photos of celebrities to see how different the same people can look in different photos." "The claim that those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear is rubbish. What the police call an 80% success rate is what we would call a one in five chance of a mistake." .... A reduction in the crime rate in Newham over the next six months will persuade the Labour-dominated council to continue with the system. full text http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_191000/191692.st m -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 1998-10-15 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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