Let me talk about the film ‘Enemy of State’ which was an American movie. The film told the audience that the population could be surveyed by a unit of the government with using high-tech satellite technology, CCTV, and etc..
‘Enemy of the State’ has a lot of good things going for it: Will Smith made an excellent performance. The cinematography is brilliant and the use of the satellite perspective to film scenes makes the surveillance aspect of the film extremely realistic. Movies like Enemy of the State stop and make you think. I'd like to share comments of the movie about the abilities of the government to monitor every aspect of your life saying, "it can't be possible" or "they wouldn't do that." But I think the technology to do all the things depicted in the film isn't too far from being deployed for routine use (after all, I can, on the world wide web, see a satellite image of the building I research in). Big Brother is indeed watching. Fortunately, like in the film, technology that enables surveillance to have an extraordinary reach also enables the average person to avoid surveillance to unsurpassed levels (especially considering the incompetency of government in general). It makes it all the more imperative that people do not let their freedoms to use anonymity and strong encryption and protect their privacy be abridged: that is what will provide a defence in our future.
I want to tell you about ANPR (Automatic number plate recognition) and AFR (3D automatic face recognition). The ANPR was invented in 1976 at the Police Scientific Development Branch in the UK. And, once CCTV linked up with ANPR and AFR, and people who are locked that their every single move will be monitored and recorded by the police or other units, including the rout of your driving and walking and how many times you are going to rest room. As you know, CCTV works seven twenty-four, never rest. Is it amazing? Or, is it crazy?
Incidentally, the country that has the most advanced tech of CCTV and ANPR of the world is UK. Britain becomes the first country in which every journey of every vehicle is monitored and recorded in 2006. And London is the number one of the amount of CCTV in the world.
Would you please have a sweet smile when you meet CCTV in London!
Vocabulary of the day..
(to) criticize someone for (doing) something
an invasion of privacy
(to be) obsessed with (doing) something
in the north/south/east/west of somewhere
something is hard to believe
