MAP 21 – a measure for self surveillance
Students that follow my lectures and visitors of this site often ask me what type of society I see for us in the future and whether that is a good thing. I usually respond to that with explaining that our present More...
Eyes in the Sky
In the movie “They Live”, which is interesting for many reasons, a city is depicted where people are constantly monitored by flying surveillance cameras that are odly similar to the new unmanned drones More...
New Camera System Recognizes 36 million Faces in One Second
Every year we get just a little bit closer to making Minority Report a reality. Hitachi Kokusai Electric developed a new system for using facial recognition to process surveillance footage. Of course, this isn’t More...
Big Brother is going Live in 2013
Last year we wrote about a secretive compound to be constructed in Utah, USA. Not much was known then about the purpose of the complex other then it was a gigantic data center operated by the NSA. Now Wired has More...
Intellistreets
The company named Illuminating Concepts has launched its new product called Intellistreets. It is street lights equipped with a speaker system, motion sensors, video cameras, mics and other crap nobody wants. Remotely More...
None of Your Business
Okay, it’s stupid to brag about your brand new sports car, or posh holiday on Facebook or Twitter when you depend on social welfare or have large debts. We’re that savvy. Much like we don’t upload More...
The Real Deal
With most of us carrying a GPS-enabled smart phone a massive amount of awesome opportunities have become available to us. Ranging from simple navigating through unknown cities — even shops or airports — More...
One Million Sq-Ft of Undesired Secrecy
The National Security Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers broke ground on a new playground; a $1.2 billion massive, one million square-foot data center facility at Camp W.G. Williams National Guard Post. More...
LES problems
Here’s another pack of mad scientists that soon enough will cause massive problems for our children. This international group of “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’s” is aiming to create a simulator More...