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Militarization of the police: Bloomberg’s army
I wonder if the NYPD folks in blue were surprised to hear today that they constitute Mayor Mike Bloomberg's own, personal army. In remarks he gave last night at Cambridge's own MIT,
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Sukey app helps you escape from the kettle!
Good to know there are techies on the side of the demonstrators, too. Last month there was a flurry of news around the release of the "I'm Getting Arrested" app, which sends an alert to family or friends, updates your Twitter announcing you've been snagged, and deletes the contents of your phone with the push of one button. Pretty neat.
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History channel to air ‘Off the Grid’, escape from urban surveillance reality TV
It's a novel concept for reality TV: task some private industry spooks and some eager would-be reality TV stars with the urban jungle surveillance race of our times. The spooks used all tools available to modern police departments and the two regular guys tried to escape the matrix, and get out of Los Angeles without getting picked up by the ever watchful eye. The prize? If the guys escaped unseen, they take home a million bucks.
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Lockheed Martin wants to make DNA scooping easier for police
Remember when we told you about how the non-proft Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) and Lockheed Martin had gotten together to publish a pretty self-serving paper describing law enforcement technology needs? Remember how during the research for that paper, Lockheed and PERF asked hundreds of police officers if having faster DNA processing would help them do their business better? Remember how we said that was a little suspicious, given that Lockheed does lots of R&D to develop products just like that?
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