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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPolice State Update: The NYPD’s Domain Awareness System Is Watching You
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/08/nypd-domain-awareness-system-microsoft-is-watching-you.htmlThe New York City Police Department and Microsoft have partnered up to bring the world a surveillance system straight out of a sci-fi novel. With a name both mundane and a little bit menacing, the Domain Awareness System allows the department to access around 3,000 CCTV cameras around the city and link the feeds with software to cross-check criminal and terrorist databases, take radiation levels, scan license plates, and more 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from a lower Manhattan headquarters. And when Microsoft turns around and sells the technology to other cities, New York gets a cut.
"We're not your mom-and-pop's Police Department anymore," said Mayor Bloomberg yesterday at the system's unveiling. "We are in the next century. We are leading the pack." Ray Kelly added, "We can track where a car associated with a murder suspect is currently located and where its been over the past several days, weeks or months." Months! The archival period for video is actually 30 days, but can be extended if the Deputy Commissioner of Counterterrorism feels like it.
The official documents ensure, "As with all NYPD operations, no person will be targeted or monitored by the Domain Awareness System solely because of actual or perceived race, color, religion or creed, age, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, gender (including gender identity), sexual orientation, disability, marital status, partnership status, military status, or political affiliation or beliefs." But we've heard that one before.
Beyond the surveillance integration, the Domain Awareness System is an investment. "I hope Microsoft sells a lot of copies of this system," the mayor said, "because 30 percent of the profits will go to us." High-tech crime fighting and a business opportunity? It's a Bloomberg-ian dream.
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Public Security Privacy Guidelines
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_prevention/public_security_privacy_guidelines.pdf
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Police State Update: The NYPD’s Domain Awareness System Is Watching You (Original Post)
stockholmer
Aug 2012
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RKP5637
(67,104 posts)1. Hence anti surveillance technology will blossom and the black market will explode. Surveillance tech
is a racket and a huge profitable market.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)2. *cough* Stop and Frisk *cough* Schoolcraft Tapes *cough* n/t
derby378
(30,252 posts)3. This is beyond scary
London already has something very similar, and I don't see it making the citizenry any safer.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)4. Whew! I was worried until I read that M$ developed the software.
Big Brother can now be hacked by an eight year old using a script she downloaded from her social network.