Posted on 08/30/2016 9:27:45 AM PDT by Perseverando
Chicago is launching a creepy new campaign to blanket the mega-city in more surveillance through its Array of Things, creating a network of (at least) 500 sensors devices that will be shared in a growing Big Data cloud.
As The Chicago Tribune reports:
The first of a network of data-collecting sensors that could one day blanket Chicago are now live.
The city installed two nodes containing computers and sensors including low-resolution cameras as well as air quality sensors last week. They went up on traffic light poles at Damen and Archer avenues in the McKinley Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side and Damen and Cermak Road in the Heart of Chicago on the Lower West Side. The installation marks the launch of the Array of Things project, which was conceived in 2012 and originally slated to start in mid-2014.
The project is a collaboration between the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. AT&T is the internet provider for the project, which is backed by a $3.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
The selling point is that many of the sensors will collect data about air quality and monitor traffic patterns for public safety.
But in reality, Chicago is a failing, gang-infested and corrupt city that epitomizes the collapse of America. These sensors, and the thousands of other surveillance cameras and input devices are erecting an electronic concentration camp inside the nation’s most chaotic and unruly areas.
Simply put, Chicago will quickly become one of the United States’ foremost police states, though they will be in good company with Seattle as a partner city, and most of the rest of the metros across the country soon to follow.
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Reminds me of the TV series "Person of Interest."
More like the 1968 tv show “The Prisoner”.
Love that show. Sorry it’s over.
BLM.
Judas Priest - Electric Eye
Up here in space
I’m looking down on you
My lasers trace
Everything you do
You think you’ve private lives
Think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape
I’m watching all the time
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I’m elected electric spy
I’m protected electric eye
Always in focus
You can’t feel my stare
I zoom into you
You don’t know I’m there
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
Electric eye, in the sky
Feel my stare, always there
There’s nothing you can do about it
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
Protected. Detective. Electric eye
It is just a “Bureaucratic Technology” meaning like all bureaucracies it can be manipulated and bribed by “bad actors”.
so while the citizenry will suffer more under it, the truly clever will either use it to gain more power or manipulate it to escape it’s bounds.
Same old crap, different tech era...
I’ll see your Judas Priest and raise you an Alan Parsons Project:
I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
And I don’t need to see any more
To know that I can read your mind, I can read your mind
Wow.. All of this and they still have the highest homicide rate in the nation.
Anyone can join my exclusive “Array of Things.” Don’t be shy. Current, partial list:
My bed
My truck
My gun(s) Oh, wait. I forgot about the boating incident.
My dog
My landline telephone
My sofa
and more
See how easy this is?
And I remember that was the song the Chicago Bulls used to introduce their players.
Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I’ll be watching you
Good one.
Ah, that song is “Sirius”, off the same album by Alan Parsons though.
Chicago has nothing on Baltimore. They are running a Cessna with a camera array on it. If a crime occurs, they can use the cameras to backtrack the perpetrator and follow him to his home.
I guess.
It’s a secret that just got out. Supposedly Mayor Space to Destroy didn’t even know about it. Like Obama, she read about it in the paper. Uh huh.
There’s no place to pick your nose anymore without everyone seeing it.
And combined with the latest episodes of “The Last Ship” - very chilling.
How much of the grant cash will disappear through the cracks and find its way into the back pockets of various department heads in city gooberment?
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