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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."

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  1. w00T!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fp!

  2. Re:Why not give everything an IP address by Organic_Info · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Like the sig :)

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    "Things that you own end up owning you" - Tyler Durden (via Diogenes of Sinope).
  3. Re:I AM A DIRTY FINNISH FAGGOT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Gee man, at least get it right : Linus lives near San Francisco, which would go a long way toward supporting your claim that he's a homosexual incidently.

    Nowadays' trolls are lame. They're not even funny, it's always about copy-pasting the same idiocies with pee or poo or homos or Taco or goatse ascii art. There aren't any of those subtly misleading serious-looking trolls that fool moderators into modding the story up anymore ...

    *sigh*

  4. Re:Why not give everything an IP address by j4ck50n · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I modded you down solely for using the word "rape".

    Grow a vocabulary...