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Archive for the 'Surveillance' Tag
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Employment: ATT starts off-the-shelf “spy-casting” service
What for long seem to have been a domain for larger organizations (when did you last time read the small print in your employment contract written in”Enron Beelzebub”) - to extent the CCTV camera surveillance from public spaces into the corporate world - now, thanks to ATT, will become available as an off-the-shelf service to any corner-shop in town.
As the “NY Times” today reports ATT is planning to sell a standardized service to enable owners of SMEs to monitor their staff…
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UK: Government planning to become Peeping Tom
According to UK daily newspaper “The Sun” the UK Home office is currently planning to put x-ray like devices that could snap “naked” pictures of passers-by into lampposts or otherwise cover public space. While the idea here - as usual - is to trap terror suspects and identify people carrying weapons or explosives, it is unclear how controls or accountability for the use of such systems can be implemented. Officials claim one solution would be to allow only women to monitor female subjects. How this can be done on a public square sounds rather optimistic to us. People living in the UK are today already on average captured 300 times per day by more than 4 million surveillance cameras…
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FBI DNA database: Next Generation combined DNA Index System now on its way
Timing couldn’t have been worse - with the Military Commissions Act of 2006 just signed out- the U.S. Dept. of Justice announced that the FBI has today awarded a contract to develop the NGCODIS (next-generation combined DNA index system) to a group of providers.
Unisys together with IBM, government service provider iSYS LLC and two [...]
Japan: Mobile Phone checks for drink-driving
Anew breath analyzer system from DoCoMo that is connected to a mobile phone is becoming popular with bus and transport companies in Japan.
The new system that uses a 3G handset, is considered to be foolproof. Before a driver starts every day or at certain intervals, (s)he makes a video-phone call to the company and [...]
