San Diego has been turned into a massive Chinese-style public surveillance network

[LittleLebowski]

http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/201...o-massive.html

Can you imagine a city in the United States secretly creating a Chinese-style public surveillance network that can identify everyone? Can you imagine that same city secretly creating a Chinese-style public watchlisting network?

Well imagine no more because it has already happened.

When I wrote about "covert facial recognition street lights coming to a city near you" last year, I never would have dreamt that my article would become a reality so quickly.

A recent article in the San Diego Reader reveals how a hacker discovered emails between the Port of San Diego and BriefCam. The emails revealed that law enforcement is secretly using a network of 400 facial recognition surveillance cameras to identify everyone. (Click here to view a map of where all 3,000 spying street lights are located.)

[ralph]

http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/201...o-massive.html

Well, they wanted socialism, sounds to me like they got it...

[blues]

This is San Diego's happy face...

[Alpha Sierra]

[StraitR]

Sadly, I can't imagine the majority of residents will care, since the same majority put the decision making nanny state (and city) officials in office.

Their state AG said today, in a nutshell, your constitutional rights will bring "irreparable harm to the state of California". There is no such thing as "God given rights", or "natural rights", or "inalienable rights" in CA. Those are just empty words when it comes to roadblocks against creating legislation under the guise of "the greater good". They simply don't see things the same way.

[LOKNLOD]

Terrifying.

[Gray01]

Sadly, I can't imagine the majority of residents will care, since the same majority put the decision making nanny state (and city) officials in office.

Their state AG said today, in a nutshell, your constitutional rights will bring "irreparable harm to the state of California". There is no such thing as "God given rights", or "natural rights", or "inalienable rights" in CA. Those are just empty words when it comes to roadblocks against creating legislation under the guise of "the greater good". They simply don't see things the same way.

That type of philosophy (theirs, not yours), that "good and evil is a mere construct of consensual agreement" is very dangerous ground. First for the subservient, and then for the advocates.

[Alpha Sierra]

Sadly, I can't imagine the majority of residents will care, since the same majority put the decision making nanny state (and city) officials in office.

The majority of people in France and the UK don't care that their roads are festooned with automatic speed cameras, and yet they are vandalized almost every day.

[MGW]

I guarantee you San Diego is not the only city doing something similar to this. The software that is available now is amazing and scary. Cities aren’t even using their own cameras in many cases. They are asking private businesses to connect to their network so that they can have access to footage from inside and outside their buildings.

I’ve sat in on a couple of different demos for work over the last year. I was truly blown away. The only thing I’ve seen that comes close to describing it is the CBS show Person of Interest.

[Alpha Sierra]

Their state AG said today, in a nutshell, your constitutional rights will bring "irreparable harm to the state of California". There is no such thing as "God given rights", or "natural rights", or "inalienable rights" in CA. Those are just empty words when it comes to roadblocks against creating legislation under the guise of "the greater good". They simply don't see things the same way.

That's the kind of talk that ends up in bloodshed. Always has, always will.