San Francisco Bay Area In Superbowl Surveillance Mode (wired.com)

An anonymous reader links to Wired's description of a surveillance society in miniature assembling right now in San Francisco: Super Bowl 50 will be big in every way. A hundred million people will watch the game on TV. Over the next ten days, 1 million people are expected to descend on the San Francisco Bay Area for the festivities. And, according to the FBI, 60 federal, state, and local agencies are working together to coordinate surveillance and security at what is the biggest national security event of the year.
Previous year's Superbowl security measures have included WMD sensors, database-backed facial recognition, and gamma-ray vehicle scanners. Given the fears and cautions in the air about this year's contest, it's easy to guess that the scanning and sensing will be even more prevalent this time.

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And in 2 years

[Bob the Super Hamste]

And just think in 2 years I will have to deal with this stupid shit. It was bad enough since where I went to college was also a training camp for a team and I would be taking summer classes when it was going on. I almost ran over stupid professional athletes several times because they don't know their head from their ass and would just walk or run out into the road without looking. A super bowl is going to be orders of magnitude worse.