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(my title)Proposal to let citizens monitor sensitive areas by internet webcam
San Fran Chronicle ^ | May 24, 2003 | RACHEL KONRAD

Posted on 05/25/2003 1:40:03 AM PDT by KneelBeforeZod

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:42:38 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Jay Walker jump-started an online shopping craze by inventing Priceline.com, the Web site that lets people bid on airplane tickets and hotel rooms.

Now Walker is hoping his newest brainchild revolutionizes a completely different field: national security.

The premise behind Walker's USHomeGuard is simple: America has 47,000 power plants, airports and other "critical infrastructure facilities."


(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: homelandsecurity; internet; jaywalker; priceline; pricelinecom; ushomeguard; webcam
www.ushomeguard.org/

my title since the original is too long and convoluted to fit...

1 posted on 05/25/2003 1:40:04 AM PDT by KneelBeforeZod
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To: KneelBeforeZod
It'll never work..

Politicians constantly being stopped by the system as a "percieved security risk".. "suspicious looking".. "shifty eyes"... "looks anti-american to me"....

Congress will outlaw this system as soon as it goes into effect..

2 posted on 05/25/2003 1:47:19 AM PDT by Drammach
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To: Drammach
Actually, something like this is going to happen, just for home security. Two differences that I see are:

1. The watchers will not be paid. There are lots of people looking for something to do that would be willing to do this for nothing.

2. It will be an evolving thing, as more and more people install cameras and sensors to prevent vandalism and burglary.

Vandalism and burglary will become crimes of the past, especially in remote locations where the criminal will not be easily able to escape.

3 posted on 05/25/2003 5:49:27 AM PDT by marktwain
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