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New York to Get 3,000 Security Cameras, Like London


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New York City is planning a 3,000 public and private camera surveillance system patterned on London’s so called “Ring of Steel” to monitor security in Lower Manhattan. This would mark a new level of observation and scrutiny of the public by police in the US and that has liberals squirming. Will Big Brother be watching you?

If the program is fully financed, it will include not only license plate readers but also 3,000 public and private security cameras below Canal Street, as well as a center staffed by the police and private security officers, and movable roadblocks. “This area is very critical to the economic lifeblood of this nation,” New York City’s police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, said in an interview last week. “We want to make it less vulnerable.” The Police Department is still considering whether to use face-recognition technology, an inexact science that matches images against those in an electronic database, or biohazard detectors in its Lower Manhattan network, Mr. Browne said.Civil liberties advocates said they were worried about misuse of technology that tracks the movement of thousands of cars and people, “This program marks a whole new level of police monitoring of New Yorkers and is being done without any public input, outside oversight, or privacy protections for the hundreds of thousands of people who will end up in N.Y.P.D. computers," Christopher Dunn, a lawyer with the New York Civil Liberties Union, wrote in an e-mail message. (nytimes)

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jenyacenda on Jul 17, 07  0 Trends   11 Comments
smile for big brother.
jenyacenda on Jul 17, 07  0 Trends   11 Comments 0


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