Experts: under the guise of a pandemic is the development of means of surveillance of graydonamerica Blinkova | 21.05.2020
Analysts believe that the pandemic coronavirus will lead to the emergence of many new products and services for spying on citizens. And to hide behind these products are a “public good”. And it
not fancy — this work is already underway.
Edition ZDNet reminds us that in 2018, when the world witnessed a wave of mass executions, by Athena, was created an application that allows you to identify the CCTV cameras in the crowd
weapons.
And now the French company Outsight has stated that she is working on a solution which allows to automatically detect the crowd of those who are not wearing a mask, who elevated temperature, as well as those who
does not comply with social distance. Once a suspicious character captured by the cameras Outsight 3D Semantic, it is photographed and then tracked his movements are marked on the plan.
To measure the temperature of the citizens company Outsight uses an infrared laser (infrared laser).
The specialists underline that this is “a nightmare” for defenders of privacy, but the pandemic has changed the standard as to what is possible and what is not.
While the decision of the company Outsight is designed for crowded places like airports, subways or shopping centers, but in the future, it may be impossible to walk on the street, so you can remotely
tracked the presence of the mask and measured the temperature.
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