surveillance

The world of physical security, long the domain of the defense industry and governments, has fully arrived on Main Street.  Small businesses, homeowners, schools, and churches, are all finding ways to increase the security of their buildings and patrons.  Surveillance cameras are also being used regularly for the purpose of documenting crime events, serving as a deterrent.

The surveillance tag is frequently used in blogs written by security experts, manufacturers, and consultants.  Generally, the term surveillance refers to video camera systems, but technically, it can also refer to systems such as intrusion detection and access control.

Some of the helpful blogs on the subject are:

Security Sales & Integration -- Articles written by industry experts and manufacturers

2MCCTV Blog — Articles by consultants

Stanley Security Blog — Articles by manufacturer

The "surveillance" tag is helpful to consultants and consumers who need a give-and-take discussion about cutting-edge technology, such as HD, as well as the old stand-by, and highly reliable, analog technology.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “surveillance”

• in Technology
  Local Police Use GPS Without Probable Cause
  According to records requests made by the ACLU, local law enforcement makes frequent use of GPS surveillance techniques
  by cblaha / on Apr 2, 2012
• in Technology
  Police Surveillance Drone Crashes Into SWAT Truck
  A Police surveillance drone near Houston crashed during a test earlier this week, raising safety concerns.
  by cblaha / on Mar 6, 2012
• in Technology
  Senator Asks the FTC to Investigate Apple, Android
  Senator Charles Schumer (D NY) has asked the FTC to investigate allegations that both Apple and Android applications can steal photos without user permission
  by cblaha / on Mar 5, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “surveillance”

 

• Selling Software That Kills

  
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  The government of Syria uses made-in-California technology from BlueCoat Systems to censor the Internet and spy on its pro-democracy activists (who are regularly arrested and tortured, not to mention slaughtered wholesale.) McAfee and Nokia Siemens have done the same in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. ...
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• Report: FBI forming new cyber intelligence research unit, focus ...

  
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• Report: FBI forming new cyber intelligence research unit, focus on digital surveillance

  
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  According to a report filed by technology site CNET , the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is forming a new cyber intelligence and research unit dubbed the Domestic Communications Assistance Center (DCAC). The briefing states that the DCACs purpose will be "to invent technology that will let police more ...
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• Report: FBI forming new cyber intelligence research unit, focus on digital surveillance

  
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  According to a report filed by technology site CNET , the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is forming a new cyber intelligence and research unit dubbed the Domestic Communications Assistance Center (DCAC). The briefing states that the DCACs purpose will be "to invent technology that will let police more ...
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• Actual Video Footage – Dash Mounted In Car Camera – Spy Chest

  
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  Check out!►www.spytechs.com In Car Camera – dash cam includes the ability to monitor action in front of your vehicle during travel, providing a color video recording solution. Drive safely with confidence knowing that video of your travels is being recorded and is there when you need it. Uses for the car cam range ...
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• Trayvon Martin Surveillance Video: 7-Eleven Cameras Show Teen Earlier than Shooting

  
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  Trayvon Martin Surveillance Video: 7-Eleven Cameras Show Teen Earlier than ShootingReviewed by Jennifer-geiger on May.......
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• DEA Can’t Enter 150 Pounds of Pot Into Evidence, Because It Illegally GPS-Tracked This Dude

  
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  Guess the system works at times. Reports the AP Via ABC News : When Kentucky State Troopers stopped 49-year-old Robert Dale Lee on Interstate 75 in September 2011, they knew he would be coming their way and what to look for in his truck. The Drug Enforcement Administration had been following Lee’s truck from ...
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• Christie Accepts New York’s Monitoring of Muslims

  
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  The New Jersey attorney general, Jeffrey S. Chiesa, said interstate surveillance by the New York police was not illegal.
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• FBI asking Internet Companies for Wiretap-Friendly Back Door

  
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  By VC | May 8th, 2012 The push to make the internet a controlled space used to spy on citizens, where supposedly “private” information is automatically shared with authorities, might soon reach another threshold. A new report suggests that the FBI is currently discussing with major internet ...
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• First flight of LEMV military blimp scheduled for next month

  
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  Next-generation airships are notorious for always being just around the corner, almost but not-quite ready to take to the skies. According to a report in Wired , however, Northrop Grumman’s military Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) has been scheduled to make its maiden flight early next month... ...
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• Congress Preparing To Extend Electronic Spy Dragnet For Five More Years

  
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  The FISA Amendments Act was the brainchild of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, but now, President Barack Obama is supporting the 5-year extension of the spying law. So are many Democrats in the House and Senate. Any grassroots effort to stop the renewal of the FISA Amendments Act will therefore face a steep uphill ...
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• What really lies behind the ‘war on women’ | Naomi Wolf

  
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  http://www.guardian.co.uk What really lies behind the ‘war on women’ | Naomi Wolf It would be a mistake to see these attacks as simply a backlash against women. This is about empire struggling for social controlAre women suddenly running rampant in the streets by the millions, threatening society in ...
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• ABC, NBC Punt on Alleged Obama Administration Leak of Classified Information to Hollywood

  
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  CBS This Morning stood out as the only Big Three network morning show on Thursday to cover a conservative groups allegation that the Obama administration gave a movie director and writer " special access to government officials involved in the commando operation that killed Osama bin Laden ," as reported by Reuters on ...
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• Senate Aims to Advance Government Surveillance Rules

  
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  The Senate is moving to renew the soon-to-expire 2008 amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which authorized the U.S. government to monitor American citizens’ emails and telephone calls without a warrant. Former National Security Agency Director William Binney has warned that its vast data mining ...
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• What really lies behind the war on women | Naomi Wolf

  
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  It would be a mistake to see these attacks as simply a backlash against women. This is about empire struggling for social control Are women suddenly running rampant in the streets by the millions, threatening society in unexpected ways? You would surely think so by looking at the pattern that is visible across the ...
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• Open Media launches viral video against online surveillance bill – rabble.ca (blog)

  
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  Open Media launches viral video against online surveillance bill rabble.ca (blog) By Lindsey Pinto OpenMedia.ca has launched a citizen-made online video educating Canadians about the true cost of the governments online spying legislation C-30 and the threat it poses to personal privacy. If passed, Bill C-30 will force ...
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• Open Media launches viral video against online surveillance bill – rabble.ca (blog)

  
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  Open Media launches viral video against online surveillance bill rabble.ca (blog) By Lindsey Pinto OpenMedia.ca has launched a citizen-made online video educating Canadians about the true cost of the governments online spying legislation C-30 and the threat it poses to personal privacy. If passed, Bill C-30 will force ...
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• Personal fingerprint scanners seem Big-Brotherish, inevitable

  
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  Source: BBC Part of me finds the idea of personalized fingerprint readers carried around by police officers abhorrent, even as part of me is already resigned to their inevitability. Theyre rolling them out now in the UK at Scotland Yard and the London Metropolitan Police. But for what, precisely, would they be ...
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• FBI’s New Secretive Surveillance Unit Can Spy on Skype and Wireless Communications

  
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  Reports Declan McCullagh on cNet News : The FBI has recently formed a secretive surveillance unit with an ambitious goal: to invent technology that will let police more readily eavesdrop on Internet and wireless communications. The establishment of the Quantico, VA-based unit, which is also staffed by agents from ...
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• In Your Backyard Pool

  
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  “We’ve never gone into surveillance for sake of surveillance unless there is criminal activity afoot,” McDaniel told The Daily. “Just to see what you’re doing in your backyard pool - we don’t care.” From an article on the increasing use of drones in the US, which paid special attention to the problem of ...
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