STUDIO JASPERDE LANGEN signal activeShort observations on surveillance as it moves from exceptional places into ordinary life.
A London shopper was removed from a supermarket after facial-recognition software produced a false match. The revealing part is not only that the machine was wrong. It is how quickly its suspicion became a fact that a person had to disprove.
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Biometrics is moving into the supermarket under two familiar labels: safety and convenience. Each new use can sound reasonable on its own. Together they create a space that does not merely register your presence, but tries to establish who you are.
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Oversight reports repeatedly show that systems built in the name of security struggle to remain inside their own safeguards. This is not mainly a story about better cameras. It is a question of access, memory and power.
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A smart lamppost can carry cameras, plate recognition and behavioural analysis while still looking like ordinary street furniture. The infrastructure becomes more capable as it becomes less visible.
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