New emotion reading technology claims to stop agitated criminals and potential terrorists on the street before they act. A Russian firm has created software that can be embedded in CCTV cameras to track the age, gender, emotional state and identity of people and keep track of suspicious behaviour. If someone is feeling particularly stressed or angry the algorithms will flag it up with authorities who could intervene before anything happens. The company claims it can track the emotional state of a person from CCTV with more than 94 per cent accuracy. NTchLab's software, which can be used in CCTV cameras, claims to read people's emotional states and will know if they might be about to do something dangerous (stock image) NTechLab has created a tool that can track the age, gender, emotional state and identity to monitor citizens and keep track of any suspicious behaviour.