ACLU’s You Are Being Watched website highlights the high costs of camera surveillance systems. New Orleans recently scrapped its crime camera program. New York University published a statistical study that surveillance cameras do not deter crime much. Some CCTV programs that were supposed to help stop accidents at traffic intersections have had little impact on accidents but proven profitable in fines. VTT Research in Finland is working on enhancing police traffic surveillance with CCTV that will capture footage from 150 feet away. The Samurai project uses CCTV to look for people “acting suspiciously””]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2227687/welcome-to-skynet–the-cctv-surveillance-society.html