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NYPD Teams With Microsoft To Launch Panoptic ‘Domestic Awareness System’
Is the NYPD and Microsoft together too much of a good thing? Russia Today on the forthcoming new model of urban centralized surveillance: The NYPD is teaming up with Microsoft to track action across...
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On How Computers See Race
Does technology covertly holds the biases of its creators? Alexis Stevens in Cluster Magazine writes about an unintended dimension of of facial-recognition-based surveillance software: “HP Computers...
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On Deploying Cameras To Watch Other Cameras
In what seems as if it could become a neverending paradox, Business Insider on a locality in Maryland in which it has become necessary to outfit the city with a network of surveillance cameras to...
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An Urban Surveillance Map Of Vancouver
The Vancouver Public Space Network mapped CCTV locations in the metropolitan core, revealing the geography of surveillance: The preliminary map that we created indicates the places where surveillance...
View ArticleA Case Of Asserting Your Rights To Film
Ok, so we highly recommend that you do not actually do what you’ve seen in this video. It’s best to be calm, cool, collected and talk in a normal tone when addressing police officers. This footage was...
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Game Of Surveillance Camera Destruction Hits The United States
The previously discussed trend of making a game out of breaking as many public surveillance cameras as possible, known as Camover, appears to have crossed the Atlantic, with a team calling themselves...
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A Smell Camera To Record Aromas For Posterity
In a project titled Scent-ography: a post-visual past time, designer Amy Radcliffe has created the MADELEINE, a device which records an odor’s molecular information. Rendered a formula, the unique...
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Vast Majority Of CCTV Cameras Are Privately Owned
Big Brother may be private and unregulated, Russia Today reports, regarding the United Kingdom: There are 70 times more privately owned surveillance cameras in the UK than government ones, a new study...
View ArticlePhotographer Detained by LAPD for ‘Interfering with Investigation’
“Interfering with an investigation” is one of those wondrously ambiguous catch-alls that law enforcement uses with impunity to restrict people’s constitutional rights. Award-winning documentary...
View ArticleHi Def Cameras Can Now Capture The Reflection Of Your Face In Someone Else’s Eye
“Zoom in. Now enhance.” – Deckard, Bladerunner. Via BoingBoing: In Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections, British psychology researchers Rob Jenkins and Christie Kerr...
View ArticleTSA Considering Banning Photography Of Checkpoints
Carlos Miller writes on Pixiq: The Transportation Security Administration is considering changing its policy on photographing security checkpoints after several videos depicting questionable incidents...
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New Apple Technology Stops iPhones From Filming Live Events
F@ck you, Apple (had to get that out of my system). Fox News reports: CUPERTINO, Calif. — Fans at concerts and sports games may soon be stopped from using their iPhones to film the action —as a result...
View ArticleRochester Police Ticket Supporters of Woman Who Taped Police From Her Own...
The video below is from a Rochester, New York, neighborhood meeting in support of Emily Good, the woman arrested for videotaping a traffic stop from her front yard. So Rochester police sent four squad...
View ArticleSmile! Get Ready for Tiny Police Uniform Cameras
Via NPR: The next time you talk to a police officer, you might find yourself staring into a lens. Companies such as Taser and Vievu are making small, durable cameras designed to... The post Smile! Get...
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