CNet News has an interesting piece on the curtain of video surveillance that is going to descend on NY. In a similar vein to the video monitoring in London UK, NY plans to roll out their cameras by the end of the year.
The Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, as the plan is called, will resemble London’s so-called ring of steel, an extensive web of cameras and roadblocks designed to detect, track and deter terrorists. British officials said images captured by the cameras helped track suspects after the London subway bombings in 2005 and the car bomb plots last month.
If the program is fully financed, it will include not only license plate readers but also 3,000 public and private security cameras below Canal Street, as well as a center staffed by the police and private security officers, and movable roadblocks.
This should get the privacy folks stirred up nicely.
[tags]New York Surveillance, License Plate Readers, Video Surveillance, Ring of Steel[/tags]