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Date Posted: 01:59:05 05/14/04 Fri
Author: Brain
Subject: Video cameras, motion detectors and sensors will spy upon visitors to Ayers Island in Maine.

Big Brother to Watch Over Island

Wired News, May 4, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,63316,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3

In coming years, a comprehensive network of video cameras, motion detectors and sensors will spy upon visitors to Ayers Island in Maine.
An AI system will decide who can be trusted and who is deserving of greater scrutiny.

esearchers from the University of Maine want to demonstrate that AI may be able to provide civil authorities with comprehensive, real-time intelligence about the whereabouts of individuals and cars, and the status of buildings and other structures within a particular area.

The AI system will identify people exhibiting "suspicious behavior" as well as learn to recognize and trust regular visitors to the island.

But eventually, ubiquitous cameras and biometric readers, backed by a central computer, will recognize and record faces and license plates, and make it possible for someone sitting at a computer monitor to track individuals everywhere they go on the island, said George Markowsky, president of Ayers Island LLC.

The surveillance system will learn to recognize and trust regular visitors to Ayers Island, such as a woman who walks her dog on the island every morning, said Markowsky. "But if it sees three big guys it has never seen before, it will take notice," he said.

"This is going to push the envelope on a lot of fronts," said Markowsky. "The goal is to detect anyone coming onto the island at any point, and to follow them if they exhibit suspicious behavior."

The central computer will pay special attention to individuals who seem to be trying to avoid detection, such as those slipping quietly onto the island in kayaks, for example. (The island is accessible via a one-lane bridge.)

Brain
C. S. LEWIS: Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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Re: Video cameras, motion detectors and sensors will spy upon visitors to Ayers Island in Maine. -- Crackpot, 14:59:50 05/14/04 Fri
- The stage is being prepared for that scenario -- Brain, 06:31:56 05/15/04 Sat
ABOUT DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCDE AND SPYING -- This place and any place in USA, UK or Europe, 02:52:06 12/17/13 Tue