The Big Brother Thread

[davidbfpo]

The UK's Surveillance Camera Commissioner, an ex-CT detective, has a new report out and is concerned how society is changing:

The privacy of the public is at risk of being invaded on a mass scale without its consent as the collection of big data meshes with proliferation of video surveillance...What most worries me is the impact of big data and integration of video surveillance.....

Link:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...illance-merge?

An academic commentary, with many links:https://theconversation.com/if-surveillance-cameras-are-to-be-kept-in-line-the-rules-will-have-to-keep-pace-with-technology-74271?

I note that since the last post in August 2016 this thread has gone from 15,541 to 53,728 views. Someone is reading this thread.