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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."
Didn't DARPA invent the internet? So, let's start on IPv6 and give every object an IP address and a WiFi connectivity, and call it Secure Social Security or something like that. Problem solved!
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
"U.S. is still considered by many here to be the Micorsoft-of-the-World"
Britain plays the SCO Role...
It takes 40+ muscles to frown, but only four to extend your arm and bitchslap the motherfucker
..privacy experts say the technology could easily be adapted to spy on Americans.
So being Enlgish I'd be like completely invisible? Cool.
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