M6 Toll to be enforced by ANPR cameras in multi-million-pound upgrade

The M6 Toll will be watching you: Midlands motorway to be enforced by ANPR cameras in multi-million-pound upgrade The 27-mile toll road will be monitored by cameras reading plates  Operators said it would provide ‘seamless, contactless travel’ on the M6 Toll The ANPR cameras will not be used to enforce speed limits, operators say The … Read more

Met Police’s arrested one person after scanning 13,000 people with facial recognition cameras

Facial recognition cameras scanned 13,000 people’s faces but only helped make one arrest, new figures show, as it’s revealed the AI surveillance kit picked out the wrong person seven out of eight times during one deployment.  Met Police used facial recognition technology three times in London last year – but campaigners say it is ‘dangerously … Read more

Amazon delivery van drivers slam AI-powered surveillance cameras

Amazon employees and privacy advocates are slamming the company’s new rollout of AI-powered surveillance cameras that monitor delivery van drivers for signs of fatigue – and can force them to pull over for 15 minutes if they yawn. The world’s largest e-commerce firm said the cameras, which are developed by transportation technology company Netradyne, would … Read more

Jessica Alba shares she has ‘spy cameras’ on her kids as they home school

Jessica Alba shares she has ‘spy cameras’ on her kids as they home school: ‘If they fight, I can rewind and see who really hit who first’ By Brian Gallagher For Dailymail.com Published: 07:46 GMT, 15 January 2021 | Updated: 15:02 GMT, 15 January 2021 Jessica Alba may be a famous actress and co-founder of … Read more

Bible study: Ancient Jewish manuscript analysed using state-of-the-art cameras

State-of-the-art imaging technology has been used to analyse an ancient Jewish manuscript — revealing how it has degraded and been repaired over time. Researchers from Romania used different parts of the light spectra to expose the hidden history of the scroll, which contains chapters from the Hebrew Bible. The findings could help conservators understand how … Read more

Speeding BMW driver faces 107 POINTS on his licence after activating THIRTY-TWO speed cameras

Speeding BMW driver faces 107 POINTS on his licence after activating THIRTY-TWO speed cameras before being stopped by police at 83mph on the M6 A motorist was stopped in a white 7 Series BMW on the M6 near Stoke-on-Trent He sped through a stretch of 60mph roadworks at 83mph in thick fog Activated 32 speed … Read more

Brit Brother is watching you: Number of CCTV cameras in the UK soars to 5.2million

Brit Brother is watching you: Number of CCTV cameras in the UK soars to 5.2million An almost 10% rise in number of cameras means there is one for every 13 people London has most with 689k public and private cameras for nine million people Second is Birmingham with 83,000, followed by Leeds, Glasgow and Sheffield … Read more

I’m A Celeb’s AJ Pritchard playfully mocked by brother Curtis for ‘vanishing’ when the cameras roll

AJ Pritchard’s Love Island star brother Curtis has mocked the I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! contestant’s lack of screen time. Viewers of the endurance reality show claimed they’d forgotten that campmate AJ, 26, was taking part in the show, having ‘said about five words in three episodes’. And Curtis, 25, took to Instagram … Read more

Traffic flow cameras are secretly switched to monitor millions of pedestrians

Millions of people are being monitored for social distancing as part of a government-backed project secretly rolled out across Britain, the Mail can reveal. In what campaigners call a sign the country is heading to a ‘truly dark place’, at least 363 cameras originally installed to monitor traffic flow have been switched – without public … Read more

Locals infuriated by fly-tippers blighting beauty spot install crowdfunded HD cameras

Dump and dumper! Locals who were infuriated by fly-tippers install crowdfunded HD cameras in the trees – and catch TWO offenders red-handed within days Locals bought two £85 cameras to hide around Park Bridge, Greater Manchester  Within just a few days they capture fly-tippers dumping rubbish on country lanes It comes after residents became fed … Read more