Big Brother Is Watching

[Crabtownboy]

Shades of the book, 1984 and Brave New World

Homeland Security cameras monitor downtown Annapolis
By LISA BEISEL, Staff Writer
Published July 13, 2008

If you've taken a stroll down Main Street in the past five months, chances are you were videotaped by a federally funded surveillance camera.

The panning lenses of the cameras - paid for with a grant from the Department of Homeland Security - are monitored at the Annapolis Police Department.

Currently there are four cameras scanning Main Street and Market Space, but plans are in place to eventually install 44 cameras through the city, said Sgt. Pamela Johnson from the city Police Department's Intelligence and Homeland Security Unit.

http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2008/07_13-32/TOP

 

[Deacon]

This was in the news last week

British security cameras also catch commonplace offenses
[LINK]

Britain has 4.2 million surveillance cameras — 20% of the world's closed circuit cameras, according to the nation's independent Information Commissioners Office.
There is a camera for every 14 people. An average Londoner is captured on camera 300 times a day, the office reported.

Here's a quote from a book I'm reading.

There were four million closed-circuit television cameras in Britain, about one camera for every fifteen people.
...[A]n average person working in London would be photographed by three hundred different surveillance cameras during the day.

o-called Shadow programs were already being used in London, Las Vegas, and Chicago. ...Shadow noticed anyone who strolled through the city observing the world instead of trudging to work.
...as far as the Vast Machine was concerned, any pdeestrian who lingered on street corners or pasued at construction sites was instantly suspicious.
Within a few seconds, images of these people would be highlighted in color and sent to the police.

From the Science fiction book, The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks

Rob

 

[Crabtownboy]

This was in the news last week

British security cameras also catch commonplace offenses
[LINK]

Britain has 4.2 million surveillance cameras — 20% of the world's closed circuit cameras, according to the nation's independent Information Commissioners Office.
There is a camera for every 14 people. An average Londoner is captured on camera 300 times a day, the office reported.

Here's a quote from a book I'm reading.


Rob

Very interesting. I was impressed watching BBC while in Prague last winter on how they tracked the young man who planted a bomb. He was caught on a number of surveillance cameras.

Like most of life surveillance camers are both good and bad. I hope the good is greater than the bad.

I wonder how many of these cameras China has. I bet a lot.

 

[Don]

Do a search on "narus"

 

[David Lamb]

Do a search on "narus"

There is no indication of which post on this thread you are replying to, so could you ellaborate slightly? What is "narus", and how do we do a search on it? Is it a search engine? If it is, what are you suggesting we search for on it? Thanks.

 

[targus]

There is no indication of which post on this thread you are replying to, so could you ellaborate slightly? What is "narus", and how do we do a search on it? Is it a search engine? If it is, what are you suggesting we search for on it? Thanks.

I believe that he is saying that we should do a google search of "narus".

NARUS comes up as a company that produces software for spying.