The eyes in the sky are growing more numerous with each passing day.
Plans are officially underway to ensure almost every person using
Toronto
's transit system will be photographed as of June 2008, with reports of as many as 12,000 mini cameras to be installed on every bus, streetcar, subway car and inside each station.
With roughly 1.5 million people riding "
The Rocket" every day, the lenses will certainly be busy, though the images will only be made available to police by transit authorities in the event an incident occurs and they are needed for evidence.
But the plan will certainly be to use the cameras, since the remote-controlled tools will cost $18 million, with roughly one-third of the price tag being taken on by the federal government.
And they won't just provide visual surveillance. In addition, workers or police at the transit system's command centre will be able to view live video or hear audio from any of the security cameras installed on subway cars.
This isn't the first encounter Torontonians have had with authorities monitoring public space.
Toronto Police have had surveillance cameras up at several city intersections for almost a year.