1,667 Times Square type attacks a year necessary to justify ‘security’ spending in US, researchers say
Kade Crockford, Author at Privacy SOS | Page 175 of 182
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ATL aims to blanket city in surveillance cameras
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that the city of Atlanta is embarking on an ambitious project to blanket the city in surveillance cameras. The Atlanta police are expanding their fleet of cameras, as well as integrating privately controlled cameras owned by major corporations like Coca-Cola into a network equipped with video analytics and real time monitoring capabilities like those you see on cop shows.
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Thursday technology link round-up
- Harding Security Associates of McLean, Va. was awarded a $17,948,020 contract to "provide for the analysis and forensic service support to the Biometrics Intelligence Program" in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Charlottesville, Va..
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Thursday technology link round-up
- Bush may have secretly continued to operate John Poindexter's notorious "Total Information Awareness" program.
- Finger "vein scanners" are about to be rolled out for library workers in suburban Melbourne.
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Bill O’Reilly using cops to spy on…other cops?
We are always warning about police abuse of personal data. Beyond the fundamental privacy violations arising from collecting and storing vast amounts of information about ordinary people, there's the risk that police or contractors will improperly use that data to hurt or blackmail people.
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DHS biometrics gathering in Iraq?
A February 1, 2010 state department cable from the US Embassy in Baghdad shines light on the US military's project to 'secure' Iraq's borders. Besides the thousands of miles of new roads and surveillance equipment to patrol them, a major part of this effort involves the gathering of biometric data from people crossing the border at official entry points.
