Last August SHN reported on China blowing $1.7 billion for an additional 1 million surveillance cameras and copycat Janet Napolitano praising Chicago’s installation of 10,000 spy cameras. But for reasons ‘unknown’, citizens were then punished for turning the cameras back on Team Napolitano. Oh well.
News of aerial surveillance in Ogden begs the question, ‘What are the Mormons up to?:
(Standard-Examiner) Attempting a police omniscience seen in only about 20 U.S. cities, the Ogden Police Department is gearing up for a “real time crime center” to be operational soon after its Crime Blimp launches.
The center hopes to eventually be linked with the thousands of private and government security cameras around town, including the city’s own inventory of some 200 cameras.
Utah Department of Transportation and Utah Transit Authority are already on board to share their cameras with Ogden police in the video center planned for soon-to-be-remodeled offices in the department headquarters.
Officials are shooting for an April launch date for the blimp, under construction by Weber State University’s Utah Center for Aeronautical Innovation and Design, which will feed video to a fledgling version of the RTCC. They hope the center is fully operational by July.
A civil rights debate is likely to flare at some point.
“Scary,” was local defense attorney Bernie Allen’s reaction to the coming integrated camera system and the blimp.
“Talk about your Big Brother, it’s ‘A Brave New World,’ ” he quipped, referring to two famous novels about futuristic worlds surveilled by oppressive governments.
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“If my 6-year-old walks away, then yes, it’s great to have a blimp,” she said. “But there’s good with bad in any technology. You’re depending on the character and integrity of the people using it.”
“We’re not interested in filming the city’s 80,000-plus population,” Weloth said. “Just the ones causing trouble.”
Napolitano punishes 50-year-old pilot for turning the cameras back on TSA: HERE
Oil spill investigative reporters face jail time: HERE
Naked body scanners invade US streets: HERE
Storing scanned image lies: HERE and HERE
Big gains in the war on Middle Class: HERE
Media kills stories on Obama’s relationship with Jeremiah Wright: HERE
Liberty slips away: HERE
4th Amendment: HERE
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