A 21st century surveillance regime on San Francisco streets and buses

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The xx – Night Time – Surveillance

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A change in tune: law enforcement now aggressively promoting retroactive surveillance capabilities of license plate readers

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Mysterious surveillance equipment at Occupy Wall Street one year anniversary

The NYPD deployed multiple TARU surveillance teams throughout the streets on Monday as activists gathered for a one year anniversary celebration of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The TARU (which stands for Technical Assistance Response Unit) teams filmed protesters with handheld cameras, moving throughout crowds and following shortly behind the white shirted police officers who swept in to make arrests.

Tax payer funds supporting massive, corporate controlled surveillance regime in Lower Manhattan

Terror Tuesday: Surveillance on steroids as competition ramps up

Readers of this blog are familiar with drones that kill…drones that conduct surveillance at home and abroad…and drones that bring windfall profits to the arms industry. But did you know that drones could be the key to our economic recovery?

“See Something, Say Something” — unless it’s omnipresent government surveillance

UPDATE: On July 2, 2012, the MBTA police Twitter account tweeted a copy of the agency's new photography policy. The policy says that people are free to take pictures at MBTA stations, but not of "designated Restricted Areas". It doesn't say that you can't go inside the restricted area to take pictures, simply that you can't take pictures of the restricted area. Does that apply even if the "Restricted Area" is within plain sight? How does that work?

Pre-crime cameras coming to SF

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Surveillance metropolis: NYC’s ‘Ring of Steel’