Digital neighbourhood watch plan
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A neighbourhood watch for the digital age, utilising the power of social networking is proposed.
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Ministers are considering a plan to allow police in England and Wales to use traffic cameras when investigating all forms of crime.
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The City of Chicago is developing a futuristic video surveillance system designed to scan city streets looking for everything from bombs to traffic jams.
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Site will alert users to roadwork and accidents in their local area.
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Review concerned only 'stakeholders' A Police proposal to introduce a CCTV law will be published about three months late while the Home Office considers the concerns of social and civil liberties groups.â¦
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AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL hopes to commission a wireless broadband network that residents and visitors could use to log on to the Internet.   A request for information issued to would-be suppliers said the Wi-Fi network would cover outdoor public spaces in the cbd and on its fringes by 2010.
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BBC Click looks at how remote access is set to transform our lives, ensuring we are never away from any data.
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Home secretary pledges local crime figures and drive to cut offending through better designed technology.
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A proposed law would require companies to keep detailed data about peopleâs Internet and phone use that goes beyond a European Union directive.
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A new online feature of Google Maps called Street View is stirring up a debate over privacy concerns on the Web.
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DETROIT Parents have a new tool to help track what their children see and who they talk to over the Internet. Several Detroit-area law enforcement agencies are promoting a new software program called ComputerCOP.
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A vast online network is being used to promote social and environmental responsibility.
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(InfoWorld) - The City of Chicago is developing a futuristic video surveillance system designed to scan city streets looking for everything from bombs to traffic jams. For the past few years Chicago has been rolling out thousands of video surveillance cameras linked by fiber-optic cables. This Operation Virtual Shield system is intended to give the city's emergency response coordination agency the ability to remotely keep track of emergencies in real time. Now, with the help of IBM, Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) is looking to expand the system's capabilities so thatÂ IBM's software can analyze the thousands of hours of videoÂ being recorded by Operation Virtual Shield. "That's really going to just throw our camera network into hyperdrive," said Kevin Smith, a spokesman with the OEMC. "Ultimately I think what this software might be able to do is simply recognize suspicious behavior and alert our operations people and, at times, our crime detections specialists as to what it sees." The software could recognize a package that had been left in a public park or a car parked where no car is supposed to be, Smith said. IBM has been pushing a similar technology called Smart Surveillance System within the retail industry as a tool to fight shoplifting. The Smart Surveillance System was spun out of IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center earlier this year. Now IBM is talking to a number of cities about rolling out similar projects, according to Sam Docknevich, a Digital Video Surveillance National Practice Leader with IBM. However none is as advanced as the Operation Virtual Shield effort. "Chicago is definitely the leading example of the value of integrating video from multiple organizations and using it to enhance public safety," he said. OEMC's Smith would not say how much the city is spending on the project or when it expects IBM's video analytics capabilities to go live. The trick will be to make the analytics software work in a useful way. "The challenge is going to be teaching computers to recognize the suspicious behavior," said Smith. "Once this is done this will be a very impressive city in terms of public safety." Â
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Liberal Democrats plan 'minimum policing guarantees' so communities know how many officers they will have.
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A sweeping surveillance scheme proposed by the City of Chicago would scan public streets looking for everything from bombs to traffic jams... and one day, say proponents, it might be able to identify and flag "suspicious behavior."
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Dragging the cameras out of the data shadows Analysis While British bobbies and Blakeys have installed more CCTV cameras than any other country in the world, the people have been "sorely lacking" regulation that watches the watchers, according to an academic paper that proposes the outline of a CCTV bill.â¦
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Comment is free: Jonathan Freedland: Our progressive past can offer a new idea of what the state is for, and how it can help neighbourhood organisations to thrive.