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NYC has 'smart' camera network to thwart terror attacks
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/25/17916487-nyc-has-smart-camera-network-to-thwart-terror-attacks?liteNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday that if the Boston bomb suspects had made it to Times Square, they would have come face-to-lens with the city's "extensive network of cameras" -- part of an interactive nerve center that lets police do everything from read license plates to identify suspicious packages.
The Domain Awareness System, nicknamed "the dashboard," was developed by Microsoft for the NYPD -- a three-year project that cost up to $40 million.
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NYC has 'smart' camera network to thwart terror attacks (Original Post)
LiberalElite
Apr 2013
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Has Michael let's-take-away-free-speech-with-police-violence Bloomberg used the "smart" cameras
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2013
#4
Cool! But they would not have gotten through the tunnels/bridges to get here.
graham4anything
Apr 2013
#5
Atman
(31,464 posts)1. If it was developed by Microsoft, nothing to worry about.
It probably just crashes all the time, if it works at all.
BeyondGeography
(39,278 posts)2. PR as a deterrent
Dubious.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)3. The little fascist's been working on this for years.
http://gothamist.com/2010/01/25/video_nypd_photographs_protestors_i.php
Using legit, peaceful redressers as guinea pigs. And the gen public as Skinnerian pigeons.
Using legit, peaceful redressers as guinea pigs. And the gen public as Skinnerian pigeons.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)4. Has Michael let's-take-away-free-speech-with-police-violence Bloomberg used the "smart" cameras
against the Occupy Wall St protestors?
Has he used the "smart" cameras while taking away the 4th Amendment rights and engage in racial profiling to support his unconstitutional stop-and-frisk practices?
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)5. Cool! But they would not have gotten through the tunnels/bridges to get here.
They should have this and more on every major intersection and at every bridge and tunnel.
Another reason to make sure that poison pen amendment doesn't ever get attached to any other bill.
Another reason for the President to have a line item veto