America, home of the brave, land of the free, is watching.
Tens of millions of cameras are watching people across the country. The total number of cameras in the world could reach 45 billion by 2022, when the global video-surveillance industry is forecast to reach $63 billion.
As Arthur Holland Michel, who wrote a book about high-tech surveillance, told The Atlantic in June, “Someday, most major developed cities in the world will live under the unblinking gaze of some form of wide-area surveillance.”
New York City has an estimated 9,000 cameras linked to a system the New York Police Department calls the “Domain Awareness System.” But there are more cameras that aren’t linked to the system.
I documented all the cameras on my daily commute from Brooklyn to our office in Manhattan’s Financial District. Here’s what I found.
When my editor assigned this, I agreed immediately. It was only as I went home that day, noticing all the cameras around me, that I began to realize the truth behind the saying “Ignorance is bliss.”
Cameras monitoring cities are not new. Businesses, police departments, and security firms have long used them for safety. More recently, cameras have become a fixture on phones and cars. Some American cities, like San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley in California, have barred the police from using facial-recognition technology.
But they’re not barred in New York. The NYPD has used facial-recognition software since 2011. Dan Verton, the editor of Homeland Security Today, told the BBC in 2013 that the city’s monitoring is so advanced that it can notice the littlest things, like an unattended bag.
In August, the NYPD managed to identify Larry Griffin II, a suspect in a bomb hoax in a Manhattan train station, in about an hour, using several grainy photos matched against millions of others.
On the day of the assignment, I woke up, looked at my phone, and checked the news on my laptop. Already I had interacted with two cameras, albeit my own. Outside my apartment, about 15 feet from my door, I saw two more cameras.
Read the rest and see the pics here: https://news.yahoo.com/documented-every-surveillance-camera-way-123000944.html
Can you feel it when you walk a street corner, the great eye, always there? Can you feel it in your car, at a stop light, lurking above you? Can you feel in a department store, following you? I can. So weird that in those stores I actually find myself wanting to keep my hands visible, as if to say, “No stealing going on here; just an honest person shopping.” That’s the point they’ve got some of us to. 5G will make “1984” look like a walk in the park. A new disease will be given the name “Cameraitis.” And the disease progresses there will be more frequent “smashing of the machine.”
From 55 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsO_SlA7E8k
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wal-mart has their giant tv screens elevated above the checkout line forcing people to see their faces in the yellow facial recognition boxes while they wait.
What purpose other than psychological could it possibly serve?
You’ll find that “psychological warfare” is far more deadly, than a quick bullet to the back of the head and the joo’s have been playing it for some 3000 years!!!
Hillary and Trump Masks for everyone … fck em