The next time you decide to play a gag at your friend, be sure the mall or other public location your at does not have this new ISIS CCTVs installed. ISIS, short for Integrated Sensor Information System, is being developed by a team at Queen’s University Belfast at its Centre for Secure Information Technologies. The system is designed to predict any unusual movement or suspicious behavior using CCTVs currently installed on buses, trains, stations, airports and other public places.

The ISIS systems assess situations and individuals based on pre-programmed criteria and can relay warnings to police and control rooms. So wearing that hooded top or making sudden movements, moving seats on public transport and engaging in verbal aggression. All of these will trigger an alert on the system; furthermore the developers are planning to add metal detectors, motion detectors and microphones to the technology. Britain has more security cameras than any other country in Europe. Estimates put the total at 4.2 million, or one for every 14 people, with one million in London alone. Privacy International, assesses that the British public is the most watched citizenry in Europe.

[Telegraph]