Via Wired.com (Threat Level Blog) -
The city that never sleeps wants to become just like the city that always peeps. New York City plans to install more than 100 cameras in Lower Manhattan by 2008, as part of a surveillance architecture that would also wire thousands of public and private cameras into a central command hub. The idea is to would mimic the ubiquitous and all-seeing camera and traffic monitoring system in London, according to the New York Times.
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Woe be it for this blog to sound conspiratorial, but should a police department that arrested a guy for having a chalk printer on his bike and infiltrated peace groups to create dossiers on them ahead of a political convention really be trusted with a network of thousands of video cameras? Think of the storage costs for all those dossiers...
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Big brother moves to the colonies, I suppose.
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