pacodelahoya
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Yea, but if you had nothing to hide.........
Wow Limey, that's awful, even for Atlanta!Though it does give me something else to avoid, but I never been searched more before than 8 times (one of which was stripped) in one hour at Atlanta airport, then the interviews, being called a criminal for entering the US three times in a year, being called a scumbag who no better than Osama bin Laden, taped interviewed and followed around by armed guards so obvious that they got cross when you waved at them was by far the worse bs I been through. Luckly they had no real reason to stop me in the end. I am also glad it didn't involve a cavity search.
You mean, drive on the PUBLIC roads? Oh, wait...
Guess you'll have to walk on the PUBLIC sidewalks then...
I sense a problem here. Unless you have the ability to fly, you can't get from point A to point B without traveling on public property. Meaning, if the Bill of Rights doesn't apply to public property, it doesn't apply once you leave your yard.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/nyregion/09ring.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
New York Plans Surveillance Veil for Downtown
By CARA BUCKLEY
Published: July 9, 2007
By the end of this year, police officials say, more than 100 cameras will have begun monitoring cars moving through Lower Manhattan, the beginning phase of a London-style surveillance system that would be the first in the United States.
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If the program is fully financed, it will include not only license plate readers but also 3,000 public and private security cameras below Canal Street, as well as a center staffed by the police and private security officers, and movable roadblocks.
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But Mr. Kelly said last week that the department had since obtained $25 million toward the estimated $90 million cost of the plan. Fifteen million dollars came from Homeland Security grants, he said, while another $10 million came from the city, more than enough to install 116 license plate readers in fixed and mobile locations, including cars and helicopters, in the coming months.
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But the downtown security plan involves much more than keeping track of license plates. Three thousand surveillance cameras would be installed below Canal Street by the end of 2008, about two-thirds of them owned by downtown companies. Some of those are already in place. Pivoting gates would be installed at critical intersections; they would swing out to block traffic or a suspect car at the push of a button.
Unlike the 250 or so cameras the police have already placed in high-crime areas throughout the city, which capture moving images that have to be downloaded, the security initiative cameras would transmit live information instantly.
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The Police Department is still considering whether to use face-recognition technology, an inexact science that matches images against those in an electronic database, or biohazard detectors in its Lower Manhattan network, Mr. Browne said.
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Would this mean that every Wall Street broker, every tourist munching a hot dog near the United States Court House and every sightseer at ground zero would constantly be under surveillance?
“This program marks a whole new level of police monitoring of New Yorkers and is being done without any public input, outside oversight, or privacy protections for the hundreds of thousands of people who will end up in N.Y.P.D. computers," Christopher Dunn, a lawyer with the New York Civil Liberties Union, wrote in an e-mail message.
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Mr. Browne said that the Police Department would have control over how the material is used. He said that the cameras would be recording in “areas where there’s no expectation of privacy” and that law-abiding citizens had nothing to fear.
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Mr. Browne said software tracking the cameras’ images would be designed to pick up suspicious behavior. If, for example, a bag is left unattended for a certain length of time, or a suspicious car is detected repeatedly circling the same block, the system will send out an alert, he said.