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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And will the outcome be a civilized Chiraq?
Or will the result be an electronic ball and chain for the law abiding?
Methinks it will be the later.
That is why Chuck Schumer in NY wants to outlaw the laser pointers; they can mess things up a little for the eyes in the sky.
Yet they miss all the crime in City Hall.
Or the cell-phone aggregator in The Dark Knight.
“What do you want?”
“Information.”
“You won’t get it!”
“By hook or by crook, we will.”
bkmk
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