Tech
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.
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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.