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Police begin spying on every citizen in real-time
truther April 16, 2014 0CA - A retired Air Force veteran named Ross McNutt and his Ohio-based company, Persistent Surveillance Systems, persuaded the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to use his surveillance technology to monitor Compton’s streets from
Read More »California Police Unveil Armored Surveillance Vehicle
truther February 28, 2014 1“We are focusing on public areas, we’re not trying to impede anyone’s privacy” Police in Modesto, California unveiled a newly acquired surveillance vehicle this week which will video and audio record local residents throughout the
Read More »Police Install Camera Focused on Back Yard of Woman’s Home
truther November 26, 2012 2Recently I wrote about an ACLU of Michigan report that highlighted the problem of police cameras being installed outside of people’s private homes. Last week I learned from my colleague Doug Bonney of the
Read More »Federal court approves use of hidden surveillance cameras on private property without warrants
truther October 31, 2012 0Yet again, a federal judge undermined the Constitution in a wholly disturbing fashion, this time by allowing police to install hidden surveillance cameras on private property without obtaining a search warrant. This is especially troubling
Read More »The US Government Today Has More Data On The Average American Than The Stasi Did On East Germans
truther October 8, 2012 0We've written plenty about how the US government has been quite aggressive in spying on Americans. It has been helped along by a court system that doesn't seem particularly concerned about the 4th Amendment
Read More »ACLU of Michigan exposes police surveillance cameras being used in residential neighborhoods
truther October 5, 2012 2The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan recently put out a fascinating report (PDF) on the use of surveillance cameras in residential Lansing, Michigan which seems to be congruent with the ongoing rise
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