Sunday, 3 August 2008

Some points of using surveillance


My ideas about surveillance (I have taken from some links which are on Steve's bog and jim`s blog)

1-since 1994, the use of surveillance has dramatically increased in the UK.

2-the UK uses more CCTV cameras for controlling population than anywhere else in the world.

3-it is estimated that 500.000 CCTV operate within London (this means there is one for every fourteen people.

4- After 26 October 2004 all passports issued in the US have had a biometric identifier.

5- In the USA has been done routinely fingerprinting and face scanning from foreign visitors since January 2004.

6- With the biometric passport every country may have its own surveillance system, finger prints, face scans and keeping them as long as they wish.

7- We can not be absolutely certain that there will be no misuse of the DNA database.

8- Police can track down offenders by matching samples with other family members who may be on the database.

9-The number of samples on the database has trebled in the last five years in the UK.

10- It may not always be possible to identify people from their DNA

11- Micro-chipped passports were introduced in the UK in the middle of 2005

12- Millions of passengers could end up on a computer system that could be accessed by governments across the world.

13- ICAO = the International Civil Aviation Organisation

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