Smart surveillance network software for phones

Software that can turn camera phones into a rough and ready surveillance network has been developed by Swiss scientists, reports the New Scientist.

Yes, the country that brought us the cuckoo clock and a handy place to store any gold teeth or conflict diamonds we may have somehow chanced upon has now brought us software to link mobile phones together in a surveillance network.

The software enables phones to be linked via Bluetooth, and to share and collectively analyse information.

While this is unlikely to yield footage of a high enough quality to stand up in a court of law, I shudder to think what sort of use this kind of technology will be put to in the CCTV-mad UK.