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I have been told that the new overhead cameras that have started to appear are not speed cameras but face recognition cameras. Not sure if its true.

Both, they are supposed to recognise number plates for car tax evasion.

Well, they are going to be busy

See report in LGC News today:
https://www.lgcnews.com/installation-of ... s-resumes/

Should pay for itself in no time...

"There will be 639 cameras in Kyrenia and 254 in Nicosia, he said."

Kyrenia must be a hotbed of criminality - or full of expats...

It's the same in the UK. If you don't pay your tax you get caught on camera. It will free up the police for some serious coffee drinking and extra smoke breaks.

frontalman wrote: ↑

Wed 13 May 2020 6:08 am

It's the same in the UK. If you don't pay your tax you get caught on camera. It will free up the police for some serious coffee drinking and extra smoke breaks.

If the car is not taxed, insured, or owned by the driver who is underage, has no licence and no money and is 'connected' then it's a real money spinner..err... not. Being caught on camera is one thing actually doing something with the data - now there's the rub.

Are they actually going to be switched on, or will it be on "a need to know" basis as with a lot of the other cameras.

sophie wrote: ↑

Wed 13 May 2020 7:04 am

Are they actually going to be switched on, or will it be on "a need to know" basis as with a lot of the other cameras.

Sshhh!

paul90 wrote: ↑

Tue 12 May 2020 8:47 am

See report in LGC News today:
https://www.lgcnews.com/installation-of ... s-resumes/

According to this article :

A plan is also in place to install an X-ray device at customs and ports to scan vehicles.

Groucho wrote: ↑

Wed 13 May 2020 6:02 am

"There will be 639 cameras in Kyrenia and 254 in Nicosia, he said."

Kyrenia must be a hotbed of criminality - or full of expats...

I suppose when you are looking for customers you do need to know they are going to bother paying you

Already in trials!