UK Transport Department Caught Monitoring People's Emotions
The State was secretly using cameras in a bid to know what was going on in people's minds
CCTV cameras installed at UK train stations have been secretly used to monitor people’s emotions.
The cameras were originally installed at 8 stations in a bid to reduce anti-social behaviour.
But the most anti-social people are, as always, our authoritarian overlords.
Our betters in government departments decided they would use the cameras to scan people’s expressions, and record whether they were happy, angry or sad.
Because it’s not enough for the government to know where you’re going. They need to know what’s going on in side your head.
I think it’s fair to say that train travellers, upon discovering their emotions were being monitored, are now uniformly pissed off!
Let Mr Conductor put THAT in his little black book!
Network Rail insist they were only ever using the Amazon technology to check customer satisfaction.
Am I now feeling extreme amusement, or incredulity?
Take a picture and find out Big Brother!
Dystopian Rail could have determined people’s emotions by simply checking the percentage of trains running on time.
But that’s so 1980s (By which I most certainly do not mean 1984)
Why provide the service you’re supposed to provide, when you can snoop on people’s expressions and … wait for it … use the data to “maximise advertising and retail revenue”, as Network Rail reluctantly admitted was another objective.
But seriously, trust us, the main thing was making sure everyone was happy.
Yeah, right.
The secret trial was revealed in documents produced after a freedom of information request by Big Brother Watch, a civil liberties group.
The documents show that stalkers, er, staff within Network Rail did take a moment to wonder whether or not their weird-ass project was appropriate.
They asked …
“Are some people likely to object or find it intrusive?”
Hmmm. Good question.
Will anyone in the UK think being filmed by an increasingly totalitarian State to determine their ‘emotional state’ is, er, intrusive?
One of the answers provided was …
“Typically no, but there is no accounting for some people.”
Ah yes, some people!
Imagine people being annoyed that the government would secretly use cameras in a bid to know what was going on in their minds!
The good news is that there’s now no need for them to continue monitoring the people’s emotions since everyone is feeling exactly the same way - pissed off.
That’s very weird. 😳
Individual facial expressions often don’t match what people are saying or thinking. Have you ever noticed how many people nod when they’re saying no or talking about something negative?
I’ve been accused of certain thoughts by my wayward facial expressions. It’s been less as I’ve aged. I must have learned blank face expressions from my husband 😂😂
who remembers the TV show Person of Interest staring Jim Caviezel? This is where we are headed - or at least we are here already.
so much of the tech we have seen in movies the last 10 - 20 years - think Iron man and his augmented reality virtual computers in the air - they all exist! I've seen it in action at UTS tech labs in Sydney, they have been working on and developing them for years, these things are in use now, have been for years, surveilling us - they have tech that can count sheep on farms - yes individual sheep - smart enough to be able to identify each individual so they are not counted twice, the same tech is used to track mining staff on work sites and tell bosses who's where on site and exactly what they are doing. the same tech being used to track and trace people on city streets. Did they tell us they were building this tech? did they tell us how it would be used? of course its all sold to us under the guise of keeping us safe, or making life easier and removing manual tasks. but the insidious side of it is the reality - that it makes the rich richer by reducing low level jobs and gives big tech, big pharma, and big business and governments m ore power to control the people.
its no longer fantasy, its a hideous nightmare that has been coming to us subtly for a long time, while there are benefits to tech, the downside is its corruptibility and the nefarious use by those who wish to control and enslave us.