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It was reported that police in several cities installed numerous
cameras in the city streets and connected these cameras to powerful
computers running face recognition software.  This software claims to
be able to take the face measurement of passersby and to compare them
with the database of wanted criminals.  After such an identification
is made, police can apprehend the individual.  In addition, cameras
can record everything in their field of view.

The opponents of such measure claim, that introduction of these
cameras breaches their privacy and gives police the opportunity to
violate civil rights of law-abiding citizens.  There are two totally
different questions here: first, do cameras, as such, violate
anything; second, do cameras give police extra opportunities to
violate rights?  The answer to the first question is no, cameras, as
such, are equivalent to placing a policeman at every comer in the
city, which is certainly the right police has, should they want to
hire that many policemen.

The answer to the second question is yes, but you do not throw out a
very useful and powerful tool, just because someone may use it an
abusive manner.  It is obvious, that powerful, high quality cameras
all over the city may solve almost all crimes, whether committed in
the street, or even inside a house, because you will see, who entered
and who exited the house and at what time.  As far as possible misuse,
police should be placed under a tight independent control, and each
violation should result in a monetary compensation, coming from the
pockets of the guilty policemen, rather than from the taxpayer.

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