Search Results for ‘surveillance cameras’ — 218 articles
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Thursday technology links round-up
This week's technology round-up is a doozy. You've been warned.
- First, a video on third party tracking. It's pretty cool and involves zombies. Watch it if you have 45 min.
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Chicago! You are being watched! And other stories.
- In the face recognition and mass movements department, today we have a reminder that truth is stranger than fiction. Or maybe it's that life imitates art? From IEEE's Spectrum, an article about face recognition software and its use to identify people in the streets during the London riots. You are reading this correctly. The man's name is Orwell.
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Expanding the Homeland Security Industry
In July 2010, The Washington Post published the results of a two-year investigation into the secretive, swiftly growing national security bureaucracy. “Top Secret America” estimated that 1,200 government agencies and 1,900 private companies are now working in counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence...
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Thursday technology link round-up
- DHS is creating another giant "terrorist" database, and guess what? They are exempting it from the Privacy Act. Why? Cuz they say so.
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Why PrivacySOS.org?
The closing decades of the 20th century brought something new: the potential for mass surveillance, made possible by the evolution of computer technology. When the government responded to the attacks of 9/11 by enlisting that technology in the service of national security,...
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Fun and Games!
Help us map cameras in MA! Take our Quiz! See a surveillance camera in your community? See fifty? Add them to our user-generated map. Together we can get a sense of just how many cameras are watching us as we go...
