A Dutch city in the North of The Netherlands introduced surveillance camera’s equipped with microphones that detect aggression and violence. The camera’s start working when they “hear” people becoming aggressive.
The software only detects a change in tone in the human voice, so a fear of the system starting to eavesdrop on its citizens seems to be unfounded. But specialists on privacy state that the technical development of new surveillance equipment is so fast that the system barely keeps up with it.
Overlooking all the systems that already follow our daily activities and movements in the western world, one has to probably conclude that we already lost the fight for total privacy.
For the program Nightline, correspondent Jim Sciutto from American TV broadcaster ABC travels to the Netherlands to film for a background reportage about surveillance cameras with microphones
After the ABC crew left, extra general views of Amsterdam are needed.
For this reportage Featurez gave advice, did the research, set-up and planning of the filming, booked a rental car, did the driving and accompanied the filming. For the extra GV’s Featurez booked a camera man and did the direction, organise extra archive footage and transferred the video material by courier.