Microsoft is Giving Police an All-Seeing Digital Eye

Remember the all-seeing computer system Batman used in The Dark Knight? That technology has come one step closer to reality.

Microsoft and New York City unveiled Wednesday the "Domain Awareness System," which aggregates data from a multitude of the city's already existing public safety feeds, such as its more than 3,000 CCTV cameras, and analyze it in almost real-time.

Imagine a 911 caller alerts police to a suspicious vehicle: The Domain Awareness System could then automatically track that vehicle with the city's network of cameras and smart license plate readers as well as figure out where the vehicle's been in the past and possibly determine information about the driver, all wh…
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