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Gary North
London is known as the #1 spy camera city of the world. But New York City is working hard to catch up. The police department has thousands of cameras installed across the city. But now the city has entered into an agreement with Microsoft to install a far more comprehensive system of surveillance. The details [...]
Continue reading →Surveillance cameras help police track suspects. They help collect traffic fines. They increase the power of the police. They also serve as a warning to police. The cameras can catch police in infractions. Such was te case in Rochester, New York. Two policemen pulled over a motorist who they said hd not come to a [...]
Continue reading →Bureaucracies love to overstep their bounds. They always want more jurisdiction. The more jurisdiction they have, the more employees they can hire. The more employees on the payroll, the easier it is to get a promotion for managers. They have more to manage. This has been a well-known law of bureaucracy ever since the publication [...]
Continue reading →We live in a surveillance society. Our phone calls can be legally monitored under the Patriot Act. Our cell phones tell where we are. But they can also take videos. So can surveillance cameras. This is a game-changer. Videos of police beatings are becoming common. Victims can become Rodney Kings. The police are now on [...]
Continue reading →A 68-year-old Denver woman went to a car dealer to buy a new car. The car dealer’s salesman checked her credit score online. There he found that she was on a “suspected drug trafficker” list. The entry went back to 2005. She did not know anything about this. There was no problem with her credit. [...]
Continue reading →There are few things more feared or more hated by government bureaucrats than whistleblowers. A whistleblower can alert Congress to some major infraction. The agency is not in the least concerned with the infraction. It is concerned about negative publicity. Negative publicity can lead to the two most feared responses: (1) an investigation by an [...]
Continue reading →In New Mexico’s Holloman Air Force Base is the Air Force’s major trainng base for drone pilot operators. They do not go up into the sky. They monitor whatever i happening beneath drones. Pilots work in trailers. One pilot operates the drone. The other operates the camera equipment They train by tracking American cars. The [...]
Continue reading →Is your grass too long? You are at risk if you live in Martinez, Georgia. The city issued a warning to a woman. Then a local cop went beyond the call of duty — and common sense. Erica Masters woke to the policeman “serving her a violation at her bedroom doorway.” The officer “knocked at [...]
Continue reading →All of life is a trade-off between time and money. We either stand in line or we pay a premium to avoid standing in line. There is no escape from this trade-off. There is a time value of money and a money value of time. At the end of your time on earth, the trade-off [...]
Continue reading →If you post it on Twitter, it’s public. If it’s public, it can be collected by the police. The company says that the vast majority of requests for users’ information comes from police departments. Of the 849 total government requests for user information during the period spanning January 1 to June 30 this year, 679 [...]
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