Panopticon is a documentary which details how our concept of privacy is altered by the modern surveillance state.
posted by antonymous
on Apr 30, 2013 -
12 comments
They call it the "Ring of Steel" The NYPD is tightening surveillance in New York's subways by installing a new surveillence system modeled after London's so called
"Ring Of Steel" . The $200 million system, paid for with federal funds and mismanaged by the MTA and Lockheed Martin, is part of what will one day be a 3,000-camera network of "public and private-sector cameras." London, feeling it's title as the most surveilled city in the world threatened, is now considering using
unmanned drones for covert aerial surveillance, security, or emergency operations.
posted by SpaceJazz
on Sep 25, 2010 -
47 comments
This past Saturday evening a woman dumped a rescue cat into a garbage bin on the side of a residential street in Coventry, U.K. Fifteen hours later owner
Darryl Mann: "I came down to feed Lola on Sunday morning but couldn’t find her anywhere. It was really hot day outside and I searched nearby alleyways but suddenly heard a tiny meowing coming from the bin. I looked inside and I found her in the bin, she was terrified and covered in her own mess....At first I thought she’d somehow climbed inside the bin herself but
when I checked the CCTV I was gobsmacked to see some a woman had done it deliberately." Mann posted the video to
YouTube and
Facebook in an effort to find the perpetrator. As a result, the woman was identified by this morning.
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posted by ericb
on Aug 24, 2010 -
249 comments
The
Daily Express reports on a UK Government Announcement to expand the use of
Family Intervention Projects. However, the Daily Express exaggerates the report somewhat,
the article stating (apparently wildly incorrectly) that the UK Government "plans to put 20,000 problem families under 24-hour CCTV supervision in their own homes".
Other reports in the UK press make no mention of CCTV. Nonetheless, the alarmist Express article is widely
picked up and
discussed on the internet, pushing many people past 10 on the Orwellometer. Then Mefite FfejL uses Twitter to ask Ed Balls, the minister responsible, if the CCTV aspect of the Express article is accurate.
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posted by memebake
on Aug 4, 2009 -
34 comments
BigBrotherFilter: Estimates place the number of CCTV cameras in the UK at 4.2 million, but how can these images all possibly be watched? Researches in Turkey have
an answer: an eye-gaze tracking system placed on the
CCTV operators themselves which can "then automatically produces a summary of the CCTV video sequences they have missed during their shift".
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posted by tybeet
on Apr 15, 2009 -
32 comments
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The idea that the state is an unwarranted assault on individual freedom is not a progressive one. This kind of libertarianism works to protect privilege by cloaking the advantages of the rich in the garb of personal autonomy, individual freedom and the “human right” to privacy." Or so says Professor Gearty in an
article in the New Statesman.
Via
David Miliband's
blog, in which he also salutes the
debunking of the 'myth' that people in Britain are captured "300 times a day on CCTV"
posted by patricio
on Apr 1, 2009 -
114 comments
A nightvision camera you phone up This seems to be a wireless CCTV camera that you phone up with your mobile and watch what is going on. It says it works in the dark. Now what would anybody use that for? As you dial it I guess it has it's own sim. "Pupillo", err horrid name.
posted by priorpark17
on May 4, 2006 -
4 comments
Closed Circuit TV and Data Confluence Qinetiq is bringing their
CCTV confluence technology, codenamed
Praetorian, to the UK. "The system automatically tracks and stitches 3D images with CCTV video, maps and other real-time information. It automatically alerts operators to intruders, unusual behaviour, left objects or anything it is told to spot." And it looks more like a video game than a video feed. This new tech is perhaps not as
controversial as Qinetiq's
Millimetre Wave Imaging System that allows
passive scanning through clothing to detect guns, knives or bombs.
Yes, it is very Big Brother-esque but its also pretty amazing technology too.
Qinetiq previously discussed on MeFi here, here, here and here.
posted by fenriq
on Aug 12, 2005 -
7 comments
A pickup bar for geeks. 60 TV cameras on the ceiling can be controlled by bar patrons from stations all over the bar, to snoop on other people. See someone you like? Send 'em an email; and maybe if you hit it off you can walk across the bar and actually talk to them.
posted by Steven Den Beste
on Oct 21, 2001 -
28 comments
