Running a Red Light. Stealing a Wallet. The Cameras Are Watching.

[IamK]

Source: NY Times

One legacy of Rahm Emanuel is digitally clear. Security cameras will follow us like a bad credit rating.

The Missile’s bravura early performance includes a drastic increase in cameras to protect us from bad guys and to keep us from breaking laws, notably speeding, even while surely accelerating a loss of individual privacy.

The city’s traditional lack of transparency on the extent of cameras, and a legacy of illegal surveillance dating to Mayor Richard J. Daley, are woeful. But the public is more interested in Jay Cutler’s thumb than in potential abuses of zoom technology, facial recognition, biometrics, the ability to track somebody from one camera to another and then combining or sharing databases.

Last week the mayor stood with Police Chief Garry McCarthy, and Forrest Claypool, the head of the Chicago Transit Authority, as they rightly praised rapid installation of another 1,700 C.T.A security cameras.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/us/surveillance-cameras-increasing-under-rahm-emanuel.html

[Hubert Flottz]

1. I think they want to look up your pant leg!

You may have a WMD up there!

[Magoo48]

2. My wish upon a star....

May every fucking surveillance camera, spy camera, and security camera, on or off this earth, wrench free of its moorings and fly into the sun.

[nineteen50]

3. your illegal behavior is not outrageous enough

if you make 100s of millions you get fined 25 million and
excused.

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. The city's lack of transparency is transparently apparent.

>>>>The city’s traditional lack of transparency on the extent of cameras, and a legacy of illegal surveillance dating to Mayor Richard J. Daley, are woeful.>>>>

Not to mention brutally ironic.


And remember: he's an Obama Democrat. An inkling of what's coming in the 2nd term?

[ProgressiveProfessor]

5. Laser pointers are your friend

[astral]

6. What about facing your accusor?

If someone wanted to get you out of circulation they can do it without presenting any genuine evidence.