It is creepy feeling like you are constantly being recorded and logged wherever you drive.
Posted Jan 2, 2022, 12:04 PM UTC
Lmao wait till he finds out about mobile phones
There are plenty of these cameras all around melbourne, you just havent noticed til now. Who is watching? Vic roads probably or the police. Are the recordings kept? Yeah, probably only for a certain length of time tho. Who knows how long, probably a few years. Are they logging number plates? Probably, thats how speed cameras and tollways work. Dunno why youre so paranoid about them. Not that creepy, theres cctv and speed cameras dotted around everywhere, and security cams in stores. Also your phone records your gps location all the time so if anything, be paranoid about your phone.
I don’t see why this would bother the average person. Why do you care?
Why wouldn't you care? Eventually you'll have a camera in your tv just to make sure you're safe. Slippery slopes are.... fkn slippery cunt don't try and argue dumb shit
Hands u/withoutsaying1 the masking tape to cover the camera on their phone so they don't get caught masturbating to my little pony videos again....
You’re not that important no one cares what you’re doing.
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You have a mobile phone, right? lol
Dear thread,
It's OK to dislike surveillance.
You don't have to defend surveillance just because it's pervasive and takes far too much effort to stop it — accepting surveillance and hating it is an option, although your ego and sense of control over your own life might take a hit (as mine has).
Probably to catch bogans doing burnouts.
For all the outcry about government control, cctv, QR codes etc, the reality is that relevant government bodies are buried up to throat with actual offenses and offenders and no one has time neither can be bothered to sit in a Batman style control room and observe innocent unsuspecting citizens. Highway patrol has automated number plate recognition technology; they don’t even need to look at your car to know whether it’s stolen or rego is expired or your license is suspended, high-tech device tells them all that by scanning all nearby cars automatically. Have you ever spoken to any police officer about this? They’d tell you they can’t even go from point A to B without coming across some idiot who is swerving between lanes because he is on his phone playing Pokémon or watching a movie on his phone which he placed on a steering wheel. This is like every third driver. Yes, technology is out there to monitor who is doing what, but no one will care about you or your car when there are all these idiots doing stupid stuff constantly piling up work for police. Unless you do something stupid and join the queue.
‘These cameras are for real-time traffic and incident monitoring and as such, no recordings are routinely made.’
https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/traffic-and-road-use/traffic-management/closed-circuit-television
Thank you
They are not actively logging Number plates. Those Cameras are not good enough to capture them accurately from any logistical sense of things (I install them). Might be able to assist with Police if an event occurs and they can zoom the camera in on the specific crash etc. But unless they are actively looking for something specific, there are so many billion events a day, the recordings are basically useless in any practical sense.
Number plate recognition cameras have to be incredibly precisely set up to provide accurate data. That's why Carpark tracking systems have several cameras and make you stop and sit in a perfectly lit little area. A single camera at an intersection is not that. Don't pay attention to that CSI type nonsense.
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Ai cameras are the best! Especially a network of them. Context is a wonderful thing.
If you worry about this, the fact that they're everywhere, then you'll slowly turn yourself into a paranoid person, thinking that there's organisations out there that are actually interested enough in whatever mundane things you're doing.
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Welcome to the Brave New World
Do you perhaps mean 1984?
its all dystopia of some sort
Neither of the book's are hard/challenging read's.
Make time to read both as both of them are interesting.
Also you won't make a (slight) arse of yourself when referencing well known literature.
It's like when someone refers to a monster as a Frankenstein.
Yes I'm aware I'm being pedantic.
But I also think it should be pointed out.
I read them 30years ago, I meant Brave New World. I didnt mean 1984. Everyone uses 1984, its so cliche.
VicRoads, live monitoring of traffic flow and accidents, recordings aren't kept.
The cameras in the supermarket, who is watching? How long are the recordings kept? Are they watching what I'm buying?
No one ever asks about this or what countless other private businesses do with their CCTV footage but as soon as it's on a public asset it's an incursion of privacy and creepy.
Shits been creepy for years.
FYI:
Recordings are usually kept about 90 days or so seems to be the usual standard requested for installs. Sometimes more, sometimes less.
And Noone is watching what you're buying or doing at any place that's recording you, unless there is an actual event occurs. Theres literal hundreds if not thousands of events recorded a day across a single camera. Noone has time to care what some nobody like you or me is doing....
A lot of people are also unaware of how many private residences have CCTV these days. I'd be caught on at least a dozen cameras just walking down my street.