The Dawn of Robot Surveillance

There have been significant advances in camera technology in the ensuing decades — in resolution, digitization, storage, and wireless transmission — and cameras have become cheaper and far more prevalent. The goal of this technology is to allow computers not just to record but also to understand the objects and actions that a camera is capturing. Behind all the dumb video camera “eyes” that record us will increasingly lie ever-smarter “brains” that will be monitoring us.

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