A human rights group has warned an advanced CCTV surveillance
system being developed for the London 2012 Olympics would
not be legal.
The DYVINE system would allow a central police control
room to remotely tap-in to any CCTV network in London
and plot the information on a detailed 3D map.
Defence company EADS, which is developing the system,
hopes it will provide a key policing tool in what some
have described as Britain's greatest peace-time security
challenge.
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Number-plate recognition cameras as well as private networks,
like those of a shopping centre or car park, would all
be accessible to allow authorities to track suspects throughout
the capital.
Advanced computer intelligence systems would assist officers
by filtering out all but the most relevant CCTV feeds
coming into the control room.
This would reduce time normally spent scrambling from
one camera to the next.
