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posted by janrinok on Friday April 18 2014, @08:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-saw-what-you-did-there,-and-you,-and-you-too dept.

Developed for the military, wide-area surveillance is on the cusp of deployment in American cities along with a whole host of other real-world and computerized tracking systems. The idea behind wide-area surveillance is to record everything in all directions from an "eye in the sky" like a blimp or a UAV so that police and other people with access to police systems can 'rewind' time and inspect everything that happened before, during and after in the vicinity of an event of interest, like a robbery (or more nefariously, like the daily movements of a reporter meeting with a government whistleblower).

Explaining that a test deployment in Compton had been kept confidential from the public, an LA County Sheriff who supervised the project said that, "A lot of people do have a problem with the eye in the sky, the Big Brother, so in order to mitigate any of those kinds of complaints, we basically kept it pretty hush-hush."

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by e_armadillo on Friday April 18 2014, @08:53PM

    by e_armadillo (3695) on Friday April 18 2014, @08:53PM (#33212)

    "A lot of people do have a problem with the eye in the sky, the Big Brother, so in order to mitigate any of those kinds of complaints, we basically kept it pretty hush-hush."

    Yeah, because its better to hide the project than to address privacy concerns up front . . .

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    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Lagg on Friday April 18 2014, @09:11PM

      by Lagg (105) on Friday April 18 2014, @09:11PM (#33219) Homepage Journal

      Really shows how cavalier and arrogant these people are now. From the state sheriff level up to federal government they think they can do whatever they want as long as they don't make it visible or get caught. Rather disgusting.

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      • (Score: 5, Insightful) by tathra on Friday April 18 2014, @09:17PM

        by tathra (3367) on Friday April 18 2014, @09:17PM (#33221)

        they understand "if you arent doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide" pretty well. they know for a fact that what they're doing is wrong, so they're doing everything possible to hide it.

        • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday April 18 2014, @11:07PM

          by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday April 18 2014, @11:07PM (#33252) Homepage

          Now imagine how many municipalities' police departments are participating in this now, and you have no clue.

          Before I read the articles I had no idea that this shit was going on in Chula Vista. Though Chula Vista should be nuked from orbit anyway.

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Blackmoore on Friday April 18 2014, @08:56PM

    by Blackmoore (57) on Friday April 18 2014, @08:56PM (#33213) Journal

    I may as well just start walking around naked in public.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by BsAtHome on Friday April 18 2014, @09:11PM

    by BsAtHome (889) on Friday April 18 2014, @09:11PM (#33218)

    Welcome to the modern world. It will only be use for "good" purposes, we promise.

    The former east-block countries would have been exceptionally proud of the state of affairs. They could only dream of what the capitalists have been able to put together to ensure future compliance of all subordinates.

    sigh... /me prepares tin-foil hat and derivatives

    • (Score: 1) by marcolinux on Sunday April 20 2014, @06:00PM

      by marcolinux (2729) on Sunday April 20 2014, @06:00PM (#33667) Homepage

      This might be running for years. People are complaining for very long time:

      From http://www.stopeg.com/ [stopeg.com] :

      A very limited list of physical effects that can be achieved using electronic weapons, many effects can be achieved suddenly, i.e. within a second, instant coughing, instant sneezing, pain, etc.:

      - Scratching
      - Stomach pain
      - Urge to urinate
      - Urge to defecate
      - Diareah
      - Coughing, sneezing
      - Burping, farting
      - Sleepiness
      - Yawning
      - Stomach pain
      - Kidney pain
      - Painful feet
      - Painful legs
      - Sleeping hands
      - Heart attack
      - Chest pressure
      - Bubling stomach
      - Blurred vision
              - Nausea
      - Fatigue
      - Heating head/body
      - Spleen pain
      - Muscle pain
      - Chest pain
      - Blind gut attack
      - Back pain
      - Racing heart
      - Runny nose
      - Erection problems
      - Sexual stimulation
      - Toothache
      - Headache
      - Hearing problems
      - Sudden confusion
      - Sudden memory loss

        The privacy of the home is an illusion with wifi radar and ultrasound cameras.
      Ultrasound can be blocked with Styrofoam/pillows but the point is: there is no privacy. At all. Welcome to the modern world, indeed.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by skullz on Friday April 18 2014, @09:26PM

    by skullz (2532) on Friday April 18 2014, @09:26PM (#33223)

    Lets hurry up and have a politician have blimp related video of him or her in some sordid affair leaked to the press. Instant hearings, blustering, investigation, and limitation of surveillance powers. Any volunteers?

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by gallondr00nk on Friday April 18 2014, @11:48PM

    by gallondr00nk (392) on Friday April 18 2014, @11:48PM (#33254)

    I fully expect these blimps to have a display that scrolls "WELCOME TO THE DAWNING OF A NEW EMPIRE", like in Syndicate. If we have to live in a dystopia, at least let's do it right.