[lapinot]

Completely agreeing on the dangers of CCTV. They even say in the article that the efficiency of the system is quite disputed: most crime footage will rot in a database. In general i would always be wary of an approach to security which tries to capture exhaustive information about something:

* there can and will be some form of misuse, even indirect: anti-terrorist laws in france being used to harass activists--ecologists and other; implies making things centralized which defeats security (like TLS PKI) * costs a lot of money to get a pile of mostly useless data * someone will throw some big data/machine learning at it and this gets dangerous because we start to base our police (and justice) on opaque statistical tools

Yet seeing that they use people instead of machines to do this job makes me a bit less angry.