2014-11-20 07:42:28. gizmodo usa
Police Are Testing a "Live Google Earth" To Watch Crime As It Happens
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4/14/14 2:20pm
In Compton last year, police began quietly testing a system that allowed them to do something incredible: Watch every car and person in real time as they ebbed and flowed around the city. Every assault, every purse snatched, every car speeding away was on record―all thanks to an Ohio company that monitors cities from the air.
The Center for Investigative Reporting takes a look at a number of emerging surveillance technologies in a new video, but one in particular stands out: A wide-area surveillance system invented by Ross McNutt, a retired Air Force veteran who owns a company called Persistent Surveillance Systems.
McNutt describes his product as "a live version of Google Earth, only with TiVo capabilities," which is intriguing but vague (and also sounds a lot like the plot of this terrible Denzel movie). More specifically, PSS outfits planes with an array of super high-resolution cameras that allow a pilot to record a 25-square-mile patch of Earth constantly―for up to six hours.
It's sort of similar to what your average satellite can do―except, in this case, you can rewind the video, zoom in, and follow specific people and cars as they move around the grid. It's not specific enough to ID people by face, but, when used in unison with stoplight cameras and other on-the-ground video sources, it can identify suspects as they leave the scene of a crime.
The PSS system has been tested in cities including Baltimore and Dayton, and, last year, police officers in Compton used it to track crimes, including a necklace snatching. In one case, they could track a criminal as he approached a woman, grabbed her jewelry, and then ran to a getaway car. They eventually drove out of frame, which meant they weren't caught―but, as the Compton police explain in this video, the system told them that this particular car was involved, at the very least.
Plenty of critics argue the technology is an ominous invasion of privacy: Video surveillance free of any traditional technological barriers, tracking everyone and everything that moves in a city. But according to police and its creators, it's not as invasive as other systems, because it can't see into homes or identify faces. It "allows us to provide more security with less loss of privacy than any of the other options that are out there," says one officer. That's definitely one way to look at it. [Center for Investigative Reporting]
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techcoreKelsey Campbell-Dollaghan
4/14/14 2:25pm
Ahh....so simple.....All Units ! Protect Serve !
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4/14/14 2:27pm
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We will predict crime before it happens.....
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spetrarca86Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan
4/14/14 2:29pm
What. The Fuck.
How is this OK in any capacity??
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4/14/14 2:46pm
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To make a machine understand human behavior, the machine must be at least as smart as a human. . . . what have we done.
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2014-11-20 07:42:28. gizmodo usa
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現行犯を空から見張る。「Google Earthライヴ版」を米警察が試験運用
2014.04.17 12:30
赤信号で止まるな…とまで言われるLA南の危険地域コンプトンで、あらゆる車、あらゆる人間の動きをリアルタイムで空から監視する未来型システムを試験運用していたことがわかりました。
バークレーの報道機関「The Center for Investigative Reporting」が、今の捜査のテクノロジーはここまできてる、という最新特集で紹介してるんですが、すごいですよ。暴行も、バッグのひったくりも、車のスピード違反も、全部空から録画されるんです。
郡保安官事務局が監視を委託したのはオハイオ州の「Persistent Surveillance Systems（PSS）」社。米空軍を2007年に定年退職したRoss McNutt博士（動画の9:13）が創業した会社で、軍で博士が開発した広域ライヴ監視システム「Project Angel Fire」を一般の捜査に応用しています。
博士曰く、PSSは「Google Earthのライヴ版に、TiVoのような機能をつけたもの」なのだとか。あまりにも漠然としてて、デンゼル・ワシントン主演B級映画「デジャヴ」をうっかり連想してしまいますが、具体的には超高解像度カメラを飛行機（動画の8:33）に取り付けて飛ばし、下界の25平方マイル（64平方km）の区画を最長6時間監視できるシステムです。
「衛星でできるじゃん」と思っちゃいますけど、違うんです。PSSは動画を巻き戻して、ズームインし、その区画を動き回る人や車を追跡するところまでできちゃう。遠すぎて顔までは特定できませんが、それは信号や沿道の監視カメラが撮ってるので、空から時間と場所が特定できれば地上の映像と照合して、逃走犯の身元も特定できる、というわけですねーはい。
このPSSを試験運用中の市はボルチモア、デイトンで、コンプトンではネックレスひったくり犯の足取りも追うことができました。上のGIF画像は、泥棒が女性に近寄って、宝石ひったくって、待機している車まで走って逃げ去った場面。監視区域から外に出てしまったので逮捕には至りませんでしたが、「逃走に車が関わったのは重要な手がかり」だと保安官は話しています。
プライバシーの問題もありますが、警察とPSS開発元は、顔や家の中までは覗けないので「他の監視システムほどではない」と言ってますよ。どこの警察も購入までは踏み切っていませんけどね。
特集ではこのほか、サンディエゴ警察が導入した顔認識システムも紹介されてます（尋問しなくてもタブレットで顔を撮るだけで犯罪歴が全部出てくる）。現場から警官が指紋を送ると、FBIのデータセンターにある1億3700万人の指紋・顔写真・犯罪歴のデータベース（動画の3:03）と照合して一発で特定できる「次世代ID技術（NGI）」は今夏スタート。未来は着々とやってきますね…。
source: Center for Investigative Reporting
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