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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Re:spy r us

[I Want GNU!]

Of course, one more USA measure to control the rest of the world.

I understand your concerns, but please keep in mind though, that it's not Americans doing this. It's the Bush cabal. I'm American and I strongly believe in traditional American values and our Constitution. Bush doesn't believe in American values. He believes that everyone is a potential terrorist and he uses fiery rhetoric in order to scare people into supporting him. All these Orwellian programs are patently un-American.

In his speech "The Great American Restoration", Howard Dean spoke of how he wanted to restore America's values to the government, and I'm sure his thoughts would be of interest to you:

"But there is a fundamental difference between the defense of our nation and the doctrine of preemptive war espoused by this administration. The President's group of narrow-minded ideological advisors are undermining our nation's greatness in the world. They have embraced a form of unilateralism that is even more dangerous than isolationism.

"This administration has shown disdain for allies, treaties, and international organizations alike.

"In doing so they would throw aside our nation's role as the inspirational leader of the world the beacon of hope and justice in the interests of humankind. And instead, they would present our face to the world as a dominant power prepared to push aside any nation with which we do not agree.

"Our foreign and military policies must be about America leading the world, not America against the world."

But I thought the U.S. was bad!

[goldspider]

Every time an emerging system/technology that could potentially endanger privacy rights here in the U.S., someone steps up and mentions that such a system/technology is already in use in Great Britain.

However, for some reason, the U.S. is still considered by many here to be the Micorsoft-of-the-World. Why is that?