Surveillance systems are installed everywhere; poll estimates 10,000 Are you a store clerk? Your cash register may be the star attraction of a security cam. So may be the hallways at your apartment, the crowd at a ball game, your parking lot, college campus, hospital — or local convenience store. There are no authoritative national numbers on public and private security cameras in operation. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) notes that its recent study just of a three-block area around the National Mall in Washington identified hundreds of cameras. Another recent report identified nearly 2,400 cameras in Manhattan, while a Carnegie Mellon University study estimates more than 10,000 Internet-linked cameras watching public places in the United States.

Add to that the unknown number of privately installed systems watching over commercial property, and any resident of a large city can count on being captured by a camera multiple times in a given day, says Cedric Laurent, policy counsel for EPIC...

http://www.detnews.com/2004/technology/0408/15/a13-242293.htm

From Aftermath News Service
Top Stories - August 16th, 2004