Samantha Healy
July 13, 2008 12:00am

THE use of video "head-cams" in Queensland pubs and clubs has raised privacy concerns because of possible misuse of the technology.

The cameras, worn over the ear, usually by security staff, are being used in several licensed venues, including Jupiters Casino on the Gold Coast and the Treasury Casino and the Normanby Hotel in Brisbane.
The eWitness headsets are being used to curb growing violence at late-night hotspots, recording video and audio evidence of incidents at licensed venues.

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24008796-952,00.html

Camera-users said incidents from evictions for intoxication to violent brawls were recorded, with the images and audio stored in the event of injury, legal action or police investigation.

Australian Council for Civil Liberties president Terry O'Gorman said most people would see the head-cams as an invasion of their privacy.

He said he was concerned about the head cams – and other high technology, including identification scanners – because there were no privacy laws to protect the information collected.

wrote: "It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."

Not quite there yet, but we're "progressing" marvelously, don't you think?

Yes, and they have people who travel around matching visible aerials with the register. Safer than being a parking warden.

...the United Police States will be right behind the UK in the Big Brother Nanny State practices, no matter who wins the election this year. And just like the UK, no one will question it until it’s already here.

Yes, beneath my pleasant demeanor lies the mind of a true cynic.

or else!

More so when one begins to learn of the people who are involved with these databases.