The City of Toronto is planning a surveillance system with 12,000 cameras that will take a picture of every passenger riding every bus, streetcar and subway train in the city -- that's 1.5 MILLION PEOPLE EVERY DAY.
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they already tried that chow on City TV. It was called train 48 or something. It was awful. Also I've never felt unsafe on the TTC and ride it at all hours.
18 Million on the TTC could be better spent on badly needed utilitarian upgrades. TTC's infrastructure is decrepit compared to any other major city in the world. Com'on Toronto, be Centre of the Universe and get some frickin' Oyster cards or something!
10 years ago the TTC had motion sensitive cameras hiding everywhere in places you wouldn't imagine. I had the pleasure of tracking a person of interest from subway entrance to exit. You can imagine the implications of being able to track every person from first step on a bus to subway exit, sidewalk and street cams, building cams, highway cams.
It is real. Big brother is here, and nobody cares.
Cameras, cameras, cameras, are they a good thing, do they fight crime, or take away our civil liberties? Who knows, all we know is that there are a lot of them & our privacy goes down a little more for every camera installed that watches us. Hidden camera detectors work well to scan a room to see if they are there, though if you are in public, unless you wear a disguise, they will film you.
Christopher Winkler
http://eyespypro.com
I don't want to be photographed scratching my hemmrroids, nor re-adjusting my jock-strap that I wear under my business suit.....
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