Britain: experimental laboratory - photographed 3,000 times per week - dystopian nightmare - programming for obedience

"We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us; so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul. We make him one of ourselves before we kill him. It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be. Even in the instance of death we cannot permit any deviation . . . we make the brain perfect before we blow it out." -- George Orwell, 1984

Source: Mail Online

Big Brother facial recognition cameras being rolled out in NCP car parks

By Jaya Narain
7th August 2010

Surveillance: NCP car parks such as this one will employ the facial recognition technology

Cutting-edge cameras will scan drivers' faces and check them against a crime database as they enter car parks, it emerged last night.

NCP, which is trialling the system at 40 sites, hopes it will help identify potential car thieves.

But privacy campaigners reacted with fury, saying the technology could criminalise innocent people.

Britons are already the most watched people on the planet, with each of us caught on camera an average of 3,000 times a week.

That will increase if NCP rolls out its 'Big Brother' scheme.

The car park giant plans to check drivers' images against a database it will build up of car crime suspects. It has yet to reveal details of how the database will be established or what information it will contain.

It says the pioneering system will improve security at car parks by providing a warning which will help staff to protect vehicles. But privacy campaigners argue the technology - which will analyse the faces of thousands of car park users every day - is too invasive and not accurate enough.

David Page, of the No2ID group, said: 'If you are an innocent person who happens to look a bit like a criminal, I would be worried about what the response would be.

'What would happen if you were wrongly added to this database?' Guy Herbert, general secretary of the group, said: 'It's overthrowing the presumption of innocence for a start.