Cook County, Illinois has spent about $45 million dollars in DHS funds to set up a vast surveillance camera network. But the project has been a miserable failure, and so the county is pulling the plug. I wonder what that $45 million could have been used for instead.
Op-Eds written by ACLUm Staff Nancy Murray, Director of Public Education On MBTA searches: “Our Tax Dollars at Work at the MBTA” On surveillance cameras in Cambridge, MA: “Is Big Brother Coming to Cambridge?” On TSA searches: “Airport Searches: Getting our Priorities...
Op-Eds written by ACLUm Staff Nancy Murray, Director of Public Education On MBTA searches: “Our Tax Dollars at Work at the MBTA” On surveillance cameras in Cambridge, MA: “Is Big Brother Coming to Cambridge?” On TSA searches: “Airport Searches: Getting our Priorities...
The “FirstView & Virtual Perimeter” projects are surveillance camera networking systems that allow people to monitor and control hundreds of cameras at a time. The photo to the right shows an operator viewing cameras at a Boston subway station. Cost for the basic...
Mobile surveillance units like this one cost at a minimum $53,900 and come with four pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) surveillance cameras, remote controls and monitors that can be accessed from anywhere in the world via internet. Optional add-ons come at additional expense and include automatic license...
One of the hundreds of surveillance cameras in Boston's regional camera network.
Fresh off our victory over DHS surveillance cameras in Cambridge, we need your help to keep Brookline safe and free!
We have worked together for years to ensure that Brookline remains a bastion of freedom and liberty, even as a creeping surveillance state has taken hold in other parts of the Commonwealth and nationwide.
Now we need your help again:
The Metro reported yesterday that Boston commuters can expect to be surveilled more closely than ever before, thanks to a flood of DHS money for surveillance cameras on trains and buses in the metro area. The MBTA even wants to install cameras inside train cars, the better to see you reading your phone with? Apparently, there are already cameras inside some Orange and Red line cars.