Privacy in Video Surveillance
Andrea Cavallaro · 2007
“people google” scenario possible. People search engines like Zabasearch can be extended to enable the input of passport pictures of individuals, thereby enabling one to obtain the location and time the individual was last caught on camera, as well as the history of their displacements through vast networks of interconnected cameras. The pervasiveness of surveillance cameras in public places concerns civil libertarians and portions of the general public [2]. Consequently, initiatives such as the Isee project in Manhattan and Boston, and the Observing Surveillance Project in Washington D.C., have distributed city maps indicating the location of CCTV cameras to help people organize their displacements to avoid being caught on camera. Privacy concerns have also arisen over the Community Safety Channel, which is offered alongside traditional video-on-demand TV services to residents in Shoreditch (United Kingdom), allowing them to monitor CCTV cameras in their neighborhood from their own TVs or home computers. Current privacy legislation includes time limitations for the storage of recorded material and address the need for masking regions of the CCTV video that capture private windows. However,