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Elinor Mills
CNet News
Wed, 14 May 2008 15:17 EDT |
Taking a cue from surveillance camera-laden London, this San Francisco Bay Area city is installing security camera systems for the police and at the port to reduce crime and protect against terrorism.
The systems are being built and maintained by ADT, known for its home burglar alarm systems, and use a high-speed wireless mesh network.
Clusters of video cameras transmit data to wireless radios, which then send it over a 1-gigabit back-haul feed to servers in the Port of Richmond's security office, and for the city to police headquarters and the dispatch center. Eventually, the video will be transmitted directly into Richmond police patrol cars. |
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SABC News
Thu, 15 May 2008 15:15 EDT
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A Durban school principal has been given an ultimatum to remove surveillance cameras from his school, or face the wrath of the department of education. Teachers at Roseland Primary School in Newlands have refused to teach until the cameras are gone and no schooling has taken place for two months. |
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Arirang News
Fri, 16 May 2008 15:13 EDT
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Surveillance cameras will be mandatory on all apartment playgrounds and elevators in Korea as early as this July.
The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs has revised a housing construction law to make it compulsory for all underground apartment parking lots, elevators, playgrounds and building entrances to be covered by surveillance cameras.
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Associated Press
Fri, 09 May 2008 08:02 EDT
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A man alleges that police entered his home illegally and ripped a catheter from his body during a child pornography investigation that led to the arrest of two neighbors.
Andrew Glover, 60, of New Britain filed a notice with the city Thursday that he intends to pursue a federal civil rights lawsuit. He accused the officers of inflicting severe injuries as he was recovering from intestinal surgery in February.
Glover's lawyer, Paul Spinella, said police entered Glover's apartment Jan. 30 and Feb. 28. Glover wasn't involved in child pornography, has not been charged and has no criminal record, Spinella said. |
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Michael Arrington
TechCrunch
Tue, 13 May 2008 07:34 EDT |
One of the most frustrating tasks about my job is finding reliable traffic and other usage data about websites.
But today, Mozilla CEO John Lilly and VP Engineering Mike Schroepfer said they may fix that problem in the future, via the massive installed base of Firefox users. |
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Christopher Dawson
ZDNet
Tue, 13 May 2008 07:26 EDT |
A pilot program in Texas is testing GPS tracking devices to combat truancy in chronic offenders who might otherwise be sent to detention facilities. According to an article in the New York Times (free registration required), not only does the program seem to be working, but also doesn't seem to bother students as much as one might expect.
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Stan Cox
CounterPunch
Thu, 15 May 2008 17:09 EDT |
I'd never had to show my driver's license to speak at a conference before, but not being the type to seek out trouble -- especially at this conference -- I obediently handed the card over to the woman at the registration desk. She ran it through a scanner, looked at her screen, paused, and, for the first time, smiled. "It's real!" she announced [1]. "Now put your license in the clear pocket below your namecard and keep it visible at all times." She pointed to the big black pouch I was to hang around my neck. It read, "FBI - 3rd Annual International Symposium on Agroterrorism." [2]
For the third year in a row, the attendees at this Kansas City event were all dressed up with no place to go to encounter a real bioterror attack. One PowerPoint slide after another, in endless progression, focused on the threats that everyday world commerce, with an assist from Mother Nature, poses to foods, crops, and animals. There were plenty of dark predictions, and plenty of ideas about how to set things right. All it will take, it seems, is more government intrusion in your life and more corporate control over your food. |
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Israel Shamir
Israelshamir.net
Thu, 15 May 2008 18:06 EDT |
In the art of surveillance, there is a cunning ploy, familiar to the readers of Le Carre: the target is followed by a clumsy gumshoe; he discovers he is being tailed, easily shakes the tail off and goes on, feeling secure and unobserved. Unbeknownst to him, there are other detectives who stick to him like glue and follow him to his perdition. Professionally it is called a "double tail".
Apparently, some of us were duped by such a ruse in the peculiar affair of a Zionist plot to infiltrate Wikipedia. This powerful online encyclopaedia is ostensibly free and open: everyone can be an editor, add or edit any entry. Editors remain anonymous; their true identity is hidden behind a nickname. This rule has a serious drawback: using this anonymity, a dedicated group may infiltrate the system by stealth, distort reality and create a false picture of the world in the eyes of billions. Apparently this script has been recently enacted. |
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Associated Press
Thu, 15 May 2008 18:44 EDT
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London, England -- A surge in violent knife crimes has prompted London police to introduce a new program that will rely on mobile, airport-style scanners and hand-held metal detectors for use against people suspected of carrying concealed weapons.
The new program, called Blunt 2, started this week in one borough and should be in place in all 32 London boroughs within the next few months, said a Metropolitan Police spokesman, who asked not to be identified in line with police rules. |
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Greg Joyce
The Canadian Press
Thu, 15 May 2008 17:11 EDT |
Her faith in the RCMP "shattered" following the death of her son at the Vancouver airport, the mother of Robert Dziekanski called for a moratorium on the use of the weapon Thursday at public inquiry into the use of Tasers.
Zofia Cisowski made a brief and tearful appearance before the inquiry.
"Mr. commissioner, my confidence and faith in the RCMP and Canadian authorities are shattered," she said, dabbing at tears with a handkerchief. "I was shocked and distressed to learn how my son died after the tape held by police was released to the public, and the story was very different than I was told by the authorities." |
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