Productions
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25 January 2007
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ABC Nightline
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Surveillance cameras with microphones |
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A Dutch city in the North of The Netherlands introduced surveillance camera's (CCTV) equipped with microphones that detect aggression and violence. The camera’s start working when they “hear” people becoming aggressive. The software only detects a change in tone in the human voice, so a fear of the system starting to eavesdrop on its citizens seems to be unfounded. But specialists on privacy state that the technical development of new surveillance equipment is so fast that the system barely keeps up with it. Overlooking all the systems that already follow our daily activities and movements in the western world, one has to probably conclude that we already lost the fight for total privacy.
Activities: research & set-up, book camera crew, direction general views, organise archive footage, accompany filming, driving.