Facial recognition technology is being trialled by the City of Perth for 12 months. If successful it could be expanded to all 480 CCTV cameras in the city's network. I don't have a problem with it, as long as they catch my best profile, lol! If you're a law abiding citizen,, nothing to fear. 

Safer? No! Cameras may deter some crimes but will not avoid it. What is the use of cameras when one is mugged or worse on the streets? And if the perp is wearing a mask or hood? I simply do not believe in stats regarding this.

Too much surveillance? Yes! I have nothing to hide but feel unconfortable with those electronic eyes peering at me all he time...

won't be long before wearing any form of head covering, sunnies etc will be illegal in a public place as more facial recognition software is rolled out.

Doesn't make anywhere any safer just because of cctv, sometimes makes it easier to identify offenders but doesn't stop the crimes.

Big brother in control of our every move.

I have nothing to hide except my privacy & those that say it doesn't matter if you have nothing to hide are kidding themselves. It's the total intrusion of ones privacy that is being invaded by governments that want total control over the masses & has nothing to do with so called security of the people.

We've had surveillance cameras here in Ipswich for a couple of decades or more.  They started off just in the CBD but were rolled out into surrounding areas as well over the years.  It feels like they are everywhere now.  They don't bother me, I actually feel a lot safer knowing they are there.

They are amazingly clear, compared to some of those CCTV images you see on the news.  I remember one news story quite a few years ago about the people monitoring the cameras catching a vision of a snake slithering under the door of a local shop and were able to warn the proprietor before she arrived to open up.

If you own any sort of smart phone everything you do is being tracked and recorded anyway. Privacy is an absolute illusion, big brother knows what you are going to do before you do!

I wouldnt worry about it. I recently had to fill in a (non Centre-link) government form which gave me the following options to prove my identity; the number from an Australian birth or citizenship certificate, an Australian passport or a foreign passport with an Australian visa, a driving licence, Medicare card, or tax file number. I provided the most rarely used one I had and it was immediately accepted. If all of these are linked, our phones and computers are monitored and the data stored for two years, our locations are tracable by our phone companies, details of what we buy and where are recorded by credit and loyalty cards and big brother Google fills in the gaps, CCTV footage would merely confirm what they already know about us. If we'd ended up with Dutton instead of ScoMo we'd all be lining up to get microchipped and our IDs tattoed on our foreheads by now.

What I find fascinating in the who thing is that our government (you know the bunch dedicated to our care and protection)  tried to introduce an ID card some years ago and almost got thrown out as a result yet this mysterious foreign body Google which is answerable to nobody and sets its own rules is now selling us devices to use in our homes to detect how we are thinking and talking to each other, monitors our phones, computers and movements all to collect our personal data to sell to other unknown entities yet who complains about that?