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NYPD Unveils Creepy New Surveillance System Developed with Microsoft

12 points by hornbaker 14y ago

hornbaker 14y ago
Leave it to uber-businessman Bloomberg to wire up a 30% commission to NYC for all future sales to other cities.
forgotAgain 14y ago
What's really creepy is they're giving private companies access. From http://www.fastcompany.com/3000272/nypd-microsoft-launch-all-seeing-domain-awareness-system-real-time-cctv-license-plate-monito http://www.fastcompany.com/3000272/nypd-microsoft-launch-all... The DAS system is headquartered in a lower Manhattan office tower in a command-and-control center staffed around the clock by both New York police and "private stakeholders." When this reporter visited, seats were clearly designated with signs for organizations such as the Federal Reserve, the Bank of New York, Goldman Sachs, Pfizer, and CitiGroup.
ditojim 14y ago
this is the same NYPD arresting credentialed photographers for taking pictures of police in the line of duty. http://gothamist.com/2012/08/06/nypd_arrest_photographer_on_assignm.php http://gothamist.com/2012/08/06/nypd_arrest_photographer_on_... we can record you, but you can't record us. double standards.
- mc32 14y ago
  I was under the impression those were rougue officers. The city is not going to defend them --tho their union is, but that's wat unions do, they represent their membership vigorously. That's to say, they did not represent departmental policy and being such is not a "double standard".
  - ditojim 14y ago
    A Police Officer with the NYPD represents the NYPD to the public. They should be dismissed if they acted in a way inconsistent with their policies.
- ChuckMcM 14y ago
  There is some interesting questions here that is for sure. It was revealed that red light cameras kept a record of every license plate entering and exiting the intersection where they were 'looking'. Not surprisingly, you can exploit that data to figure out when a license plate has gone through an intersection, and with enough intersections get a pretty good idea of where it was at any given time. I see no reason why one couldn't setup a bunch of web cameras looking out windows and some OCV software to watch for patrol cars going by. A simple P2P protocol and you've got the basis for creating a persistent state diagram of where every patrol car is at any given time. I think making such a system would certainly get the conversation going about distributed surveillance.
ChuckMcM 14y ago
Poor name choice given the twitch response to DARPA's "Total Information Awareness" (TIA) efforts. [1] [1]https://epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/doc_analysis.html https://epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/doc_analysis.html

12 points by hornbaker 14y ago

Leave it to uber-businessman Bloomberg to wire up a 30% commission to NYC for all future sales to other cities.

What's really creepy is they're giving private companies access. From http://www.fastcompany.com/3000272/nypd-microsoft-launch-all-seeing-domain-awareness-system-real-time-cctv-license-plate-monito http://www.fastcompany.com/3000272/nypd-microsoft-launch-all... The DAS system is headquartered in a lower Manhattan office tower in a command-and-control center staffed around the clock by both New York police and "private stakeholders." When this reporter visited, seats were clearly designated with signs for organizations such as the Federal Reserve, the Bank of New York, Goldman Sachs, Pfizer, and CitiGroup.

ditojim 14y ago

this is the same NYPD arresting credentialed photographers for taking pictures of police in the line of duty. http://gothamist.com/2012/08/06/nypd_arrest_photographer_on_assignm.php http://gothamist.com/2012/08/06/nypd_arrest_photographer_on_... we can record you, but you can't record us. double standards.

mc32 14y ago
I was under the impression those were rougue officers. The city is not going to defend them --tho their union is, but that's wat unions do, they represent their membership vigorously. That's to say, they did not represent departmental policy and being such is not a "double standard".
- ditojim 14y ago
  A Police Officer with the NYPD represents the NYPD to the public. They should be dismissed if they acted in a way inconsistent with their policies.
ChuckMcM 14y ago
There is some interesting questions here that is for sure. It was revealed that red light cameras kept a record of every license plate entering and exiting the intersection where they were 'looking'. Not surprisingly, you can exploit that data to figure out when a license plate has gone through an intersection, and with enough intersections get a pretty good idea of where it was at any given time. I see no reason why one couldn't setup a bunch of web cameras looking out windows and some OCV software to watch for patrol cars going by. A simple P2P protocol and you've got the basis for creating a persistent state diagram of where every patrol car is at any given time. I think making such a system would certainly get the conversation going about distributed surveillance.

ChuckMcM 14y ago

Poor name choice given the twitch response to DARPA's "Total Information Awareness" (TIA) efforts. [1] [1]https://epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/doc_analysis.html https://epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/doc_analysis.html