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The surveilled society: Who is watching you and how
Analysis - Artificial intelligence-enabled cameras on billboards, in bus windshields, on petrol station forecourts and in the checkout at the supermarket - all these are here, or about to be.
In that hearing, expected to involve at least four separate criminal cases challenging police use for evidence of footage gathered without a warrant from CCTV retail cameras linked to automated number plate recognition (ANPR) systems, the ruling was reserved. Another is the spread of systems that do not rely on cameras but surveil anyway, collecting data on you about where you go and what you do, and storing it and possibly sharing it, under agreements and contracts aimed at protecting your privacy and keeping your profile from becoming a tradeable commodity, though that has not worked so well elsewhere, such as on social media platforms. Cobwebs - the virtual equivalent of spying with cameras, this tech has been surveilling people's social media for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's MI intelligence unit, to deter boatpeople smugglers, it says.
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