Olympics to Have Massive Surveillance Network

sharkdba writes "CNN has an article about Olympic digital security. This should be of interest to /. readers since it's a supposedly largest surveillance network ever. Thousands of cameras are combined with software (AI agents?) to look for anomalies. Also words are parsed (scan equivalent to OCR). I understand the idea that if you're in public expect no privacy, but even CNN says: 'Although the state's right to take all necessary measures that it deems necessary is recognized, there is fear that these measures will have a negative impact on basic human rights.'"

Unless these are webcast..

[maskedbishounen]

..I'm not interested. I mean, they do have security cameras in the female facilities.. right?

Subscriber service available?

[erroneus]

Since we in the US will not be able to see it without paying some jackass company a bunch of money and still not be able to see it live, I wonder if we can tap into the surveilance network? :)

Security .. hah!

[failedlogic]

Security?

Considering the only branded foods available on ground will be, namely, McDonalds and Coke I don't think how this will fare well for spectators. My stomach feels insecure after eating that garbage! I feel sorry for everybody else. All the special forces, police, etc won't be able to help there. Maybe they need more doctors on hand or perhaps some dieticians?

Human rights?

[iamdrscience]

Well I don't know about human rights, but I bet that the security guards who get to keep an eye on the women's gymnastic events from 100 different angles are pretty happy.

Re:Too fast

[Anonymous Coward]

I modded you up. It IS funny

Re:"State's right"?

[quantaman]

'Although the state's right to take all necessary measures that it deems necessary is recognized, there is fear that these measures will have a negative impact on basic human rights.'"

WTF?

Constitutional Amendment 28:

"The state shall have the right to take all necessary measures that it deems necessary."


A very good point, the Greeks are merely using the powers granted to them by the US Constitution...

Re:Some observations and questions

[shut_up_man]

Dude, I'm a New Zealander living in Canada. You just made my day twice.

Re:I must be missing something

[Jack Action]

If you're in Athens during the Olympics, you're online whether you like it or not.

Re:Is this even possible?

[surprise_audit]

Behold the power of outsourcing - if the technology isn't available to transcribe speech-to-text, hire 10,000 temps from India... Hand them a tape each and a cheap acsii terminal with a word processor. Heck, hire 100,000 if you need to...

In 2004 Olympics Greece...

[Project2501a]

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