A Camera at Every Airplane Passenger’s Seat to Watch for ‘Terrorist Behavior’

So I assume the bathrooms will be bugged as well since you know that’s where terrorists are mixing their hair gels and mouthwash to build bombs.

In-flight surveillance could foil terrorists in the sky

CCTV cameras are bringing more and more public places under surveillance – and passenger aircraft could be next.

A prototype European system uses multiple cameras and “Big Brother” software to try and automatically detect terrorists or other dangers caused by passengers.

The European Union’s Security of Aircraft in the Future European Environment (SAFEE) project uses a camera in every passenger’s seat, with six wide-angle cameras to survey the aisles. Software then analyses the footage to detect developing terrorist activity or “air-rage” incidents, by tracking passengers’ facial expressions.

The system performed well in tests this January that simulated terrorist and unruly passenger behaviour scenarios in a fake Airbus A380 fuselage, say the researchers that built it.
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“It looks for running in the cabin, standing near the cockpit for long periods of time, and other predetermined indicators that suggest a developing threat,” says James Ferryman of the University of Reading, UK, one of the system’s developers.

Other behaviours could include a person nervously touching their face, or sweating excessively. One such behaviour won’t trigger the system to alert the crew, only certain combinations of them.

Suppose each recording is kept on file. Imagine you apply for a job that requires travel so they pull up your footage to check your drinks per flight ratio. Combine that with the street cameras showing you eating fatty foods (with that non-wife female) that would drive up insurance costs and then there’s the weblogs of you visiting, well, you know where you’ve been and …. Next!