From the sure-we-could-use-more-cameras dept.: A network of 7,000 surveillance cameras has been set up in south-west China’s Guizhou province to help protect the public and key institutions, xinhuanet.com reported Tuesday. Dubbed the ‘Skynet Project’, 7,270 cameras will monitor key sections of the province such as toll stations, highway exits and entrances, roads linking counties, according…
Category: U.S.
Cops track gangsters with licence-plate readers – and store innocent people’s data?!
Chad Skelton reports: The Vancouver police department’s plans to use automatic licence-plate readers to track gangsters’ movements could have a real impact on gang violence, according to one of the first U.S. police departments to deploy the technology. “It’s been great for us and, looking at what they want to do in Vancouver, I think…
Congress already voted against TSA naked child scanning — ditto for state laws against opposite sex groping and scanning
The following was published on December 6, but just came to my attention thanks to a helpful reader. Denis Drew writes: How can TSA administrative regs — composed with delegated Congressional legislative power – overwrite an explicit Congressional prohibition of naked child imaging: a legislative house divided against itself? Said prohibition passed First Amendment muster…
Privacy key in repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
From an editorial in Navy Times about the repeal of DADT: …. There will be challenges. About 24 percent of troops say they’d quit or at least consider quitting the service if repeal happens. Still, with leaders seemingly committed, it’s time to figure out how to make this work with minimal disruption. That means focusing…