DARPA Developing 'Combat Zones That See'

t0rnt0pieces writes "DARPA is developing an urban surveillance system that would use computers and thousands of cameras to track, record and analyze the movement of every vehicle in a city. Officials claim that the project is designed to help the U.S. military protect troops and fight in cities overseas, but police, scientists and privacy experts say the technology could easily be adapted to spy on Americans. Combined with other technologies, such as software that scans databases of everyday transactions and personal records worldwide, the government would have a reasonably good idea of where everyone is most of the time. Read the news story and the contracting document."

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spy r us

[nbarr]

Of course, one more USA measure to control the rest of the world. The relation between USA and the rest of the world, is the same as the relation between Microsoft and the other software companies

Re:But I thought the U.S. was bad!

[Metasquares]

The U.S. has the most power of any country, as does Microsoft, and uses that power to bully around other countries. It forces its citizens to agree to be bound by U.S. laws, then changes them without its citizens' consent (Although every country in the world save a pure democracy does this, since the citizens themselves aren't doing the voting). It doesn't trust its citizens very much and wants to know everything that they're doing all of the time (Though they're partially justified in this because it will help them protect the country). I can easily see the similarity between the U.S. and Microsoft.

Re:The Real Question

[Matrix272]

I don't necessarily like him or dislike him. I will admit that I'm generally opposed to any Democratic presidential candidate, although if you can convince me that he isn't going to turn this Republic into a Socialist country, then I'll be glad to hear him out.

I assumed his stance on gun control simply because he is a Democrat, and it seems like the Democrats want to take power away from individuals, and give that power to the government, which I adamently oppose. They're also incredibly afraid of the Constitution, and want to overwrite it using the Supreme Court, which is why they oppose any conservative nominee to any court, specific Estrada. In that case, they're arguing that he won't answer their questions, but they haven't asked any... so they're trying to alter the Constitution by making it necessary to have 60 votes to allow his nomination. I have several other reasons I don't like Democrats, but I really don't want to get into all of them right now. But, if you can tell me why he's better than Bush, I'll listen.