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Tomorrows Surveillance Is Fast Becoming Today's Reality - by Glenn Freiboth
Submitted 2007-06-27 12:04:58
Tomorrow's surveillance technology may be considerably more effective. But each improvement in technology will typically come at the cost of more intrusion into the privacy of ordinary citizens. The public in general seems unaware of the goals of scientists around the world who have been intensifying their efforts to perfect the art of surveillance, hoping to catch criminals and terrorists before they strike.
Research laboratories foresee tools that could identify and track just about every person, anywhere and sound alarms when the systems encounter hazardous devices or chemical compounds. Many of these ideas stem from the annals of science fiction. For example, an artificial nose in doorways and corridors sniffs out faint traces of explosives on someone's hair. Tiny sensors floating in reservoirs detect a deadly microbe and radio a warning. Smart cameras "finger" people at a distance by the way they walk or by the shape of their nose. Chemical lab's analyzes the sweat, body odor, and skin flakes in the human thermal plume which represents the halo of heat that surrounds each person.
Consumer demand for video and audio surveillance products is speeding their development by lowering the cost of the underlying technologies. Camera...