Showing posts with label surveillance society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surveillance society. Show all posts

Thursday, 27 November 2008

Minority Report-style CCTV that spots crimes BEFORE they happen

Thought this was worth posting; I do the odd surveillance society copy and paste post, it's all connected though. I wouldn't do any "loitering" or "standing still" if I were you... GET IN LINE, FACE FORWARD, NO STOPPING OR LOITERING OF ANY KIND!!! Fascism's gadgets are getting funner and funner... still waiting on that microchip, ah Indonesia is on top of that! Daily Mail link. Oh yeah, and watch the crisis in India, MK'd/brainwashed (by Westerners and/or tools working for them) kids with guns shooting Westerners to further the ridiculously blatant NWO agenda some more. And yes this technology isn't exactly new, but it's interesting that they're picking up the pace of putting these Orwellian measures in place.

A Minority Report style CCTV system which helps predict crimes before they actually happen has been installed for the first time in a UK city.

Portsmouth City Council has set up the network of 'intelligent' cameras which can alert an operator to suspicious behaviour.

The Perceptrak system, produced by Smart CCTV Ltd, is able to spot 'unusual' incidents such as somebody loitering or a vehicle travelling too fast.


CCTV frame 1: Two men appear to be meeting on a deserted street. Is a crime about to happen?


CCTV frame 2: The two men are now seen exchanging words and perhaps something else. The operator is alerted

It then alerts the CCTV operator who can assess the situation and take appropriate action if they believe a crime has been committed or is about to be.

The system is being set up to watch quiet areas such as car parks, stairwells or corridors in buildings and streets at night-time.

This allows a CCTV operator to monitor many more cameras without having to watch every screen simultaneously.


Crystal ball: This new CCTV in Portsmouth can automatically detect potential crimes before they happen

Nick Hewitson, managing director of Smart CCTV, said: 'Although we are a long way off Minority Report, it is a step closer.

'It is able to alert the operator to something that might be interesting such as a guy hanging around or somebody running.

'But what it cannot do is say whether that guy is waiting for his girlfriend or about to commit a crime.


How it works: The CCTV system being used in Portsmouth to detect potential criminal behaviour


Under watch: A man is caught on CCTV loitering in a stairwell

'That is for the operator to make a subjective human decision on and make an appropriate response.

'The software is able to filter out all the boring information and gives the security operator alerts on things that might be interesting.' [I'd imagine being one of those big brother operators is extremely fun and gives them nice power trip.]

The system, which has been run successfully in several U.S. cities, including New York, Washington and Chicago, is being provided to Portsmouth for free. [Lucky Portsmouth!]


Crimes are predicted by special CCTV operators in the blockbuster Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise

The city's CCTV control rooms have 142 cameras with live monitoring, watched 24 hours a day.

Councillor Jason Fazackarley, Portsmouth City Council cabinet member for community safety, said: 'This is a fantastic development. It's the 21st century equivalent of a nightwatchman, but unlike a nightwatchman it never blinks, it never takes a break and it never gets bored.' [You are being watched.]

In the film Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise, crimes are predicted by special CCTV operators.


Smile you're on camera: Portsmouth City Council is introducing a new sophisticated CCTV system

Edit: Bringing things back in my comfort zone; Britney's top-hat ritual continues (originally with Madonna and Christina), she won a Bambi award (awww), note grid ball type thing. I'll watch her X-Factor (Simon Cowell programmer/handler/general stooge, Dannii Minogue victim, etc) performance with interest, get started on final Britney part soon (almost finished a Fringe post; finally came out of the closet with its Monarch programming).



Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Government unveils 'Big Brother' plan to log calls and emails of EVERY person in Britain

Jacqui Smith has unveiled plans for a massive expansion of 'Big Brother' State surveillance, covering every phonecall, email, text message and internet visit in Britain.

The Home Secretary claimed that storing details of a person's conversations by telephone, computer or website was vital to prevent further terrorist atrocities.

Activities which will be subject to snooping for the first time include visits to social networking sites such as Facebook, auction sites such as Ebay, gaming websites and chatrooms.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has unveiled plans for a massive expansion of 'Big Brother' state surveillance, covering every phonecall, e-mail, text message and internet visit in Britain

Police and security services will not be able to access the precise content - but will know each site visited, and to whom and when a phonecall, text message or email was sent. This could be accessed within an hour of being sent, in virtual 'real time', sources say.

If this sets alarm bells ringing, and they are concerned about a person's activities, they could seek a ministerial warrant to intercept exactly what is being sent - including the content.

The billions of pieces of data, likely to be stored for at least a year, could even be kept on a giant Government database, officials said. The cost is estimated to be at least £1billion, and could be far higher.

The proposals were last night attacked by MPs and privacy groups as 'Stalinist', 'Orwellian' and a reversal of the presumption a person is innocent until proven guilty. One opponent said: 'They are making us all suspects'.

And a leaked memo written by sources close to the project revealed it was fraught with difficulties.

Officials are split between placing the vast amount of personal data to be collected on the huge central database - or forcing individual service providers, such as internet companies, to store the information, to be accessed on demand.

Currently, the option being worked on is to request data from the service providers, the memo reveals. They are likely to pass on extra costs to customers.

The memo says that while the Interception Modernsisation Programme - the name given to the Whitehall team working on the project - favoured a vast database, some Home Office officials viewed this as 'impractical, disproportionate, politically unattractive, and possibly unlawful from a human rights perspective.'


We're watching you: An East German Stasi officer listens in on a couple in a scene from the Oscar-winning film The Lives Of Others. Jacqui Smith has unveiled plans for a massive expansion of state surveillance

Ms Smith herself admitted the public had reason to be concerned.

In a speech to the Ippr think-tank, she said: 'Of course, even if there had not been events (data losses), the British public would have every right to be sceptical about a state activity that involves the collection of data. 'They should be sceptical and questioning about the processes that we already use.'

But she said that, without increasing their capacity to store data, the police and security services would have to consider a 'massive expansion of surveillance'

Security sources say terrorists, wise to the fact the authorities can already store some e-mail and phone records, were adapting their techniques.

These include communicating via social networking sites, or on computer games consoles which are linked to the internet.

Ms Smith insisted councils would not have access to the mass of new data. Those who can request the piles of new information will be limited to police and the security services, to investigate crime.

But critics pointed to past examples of legislation, once passed, being extended to local authorities. These include the anti-terror Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which is now used by councils to trap people for the most minor offences.

Shadow Home Secretary Dominic Grieve said: 'These proposals would mark a substantial shift in the powers of the state to obtain personal information on individuals.

Given the Government's poor record on protecting data and running databases there needs to be a full and proper debate. The Government must present convincing justification for such an exponential increase in the powers of the state.

'The public will also be acutely aware of how, under this Government, surveillance powers designed to combat terrorism and serious organised crime have been used by local authorities to investigate things like fly-tipping. This would be absolutely unacceptable.'

Consultation on the plans will begin early next year, with a Bill expected to follow by the end of 2009 or 2010.

Originally, legislation had been planned for the upcoming Queen's Speech, but officials say there is insufficient time, as the subject is so complex and controversial.

Liberal Democrat spokesman Chris Huhne said: 'The Government’s Orwellian plans for a vast database of our private communications are deeply worrying. I hope that this consultation is not just a sham exercise to soft-soap an unsuspecting public.

'This Government has repeatedly shown that it cannot be trusted with sensitive data. There is little reason to think ministers will be any less slapdash with our phone and internet records.

'Ministers claim the database will only be used in terrorist cases, but there is now a long list of cases from the arrest of Walter Wolfgang for heckling at a Labour conference to the freezing of Icelandic assets where anti-terrorism law has been used for purposes for which it was not intended.These proposals are incompatible with a free country and a free people.'

Phil Booth, of the NO2ID privacy campaign, said: 'This is the Stalinist vision which we always knew was on the agenda. Monitoring the entire population is a complete abhorrence, reversing the presumption of innocent until proven guilty and making us all suspects.'

NO2ID added: 'The Home Secretary talks about 'principles' but the only principle she appears to be acquainted with is convenience for the stalker state. Monitoring your communications is as intrusive as searching your home. It ought to only be permitted as part of a specific investigation and only on a warrant from a judge.'

But senior security and police services were adamant that, without the new powers, lives would be put at risk. They said some investigations have already been affected by criminals who use technology to avoid detection, by plotting online through social networking sites or interactive games.

'Criminals are getting more sophisticated in using this technology and they are going to exploit it unless we do something,' one source said.

Ms Smith said: 'There are no plans for an enormous database which will contain the content of your emails, the texts that you send or the chats you have on the phone or online.

'Nor are we going to give local authorities the power to trawl through the database in the interests of investigating lower level criminality under the spurious cover of counter-terrorist legislation.'

Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, has described the proposal as 'a step too far for the British way of life,' and Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights group Liberty, said the proposals will 'do nothing to make us safer.'

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I probably don't talk enough about the 'New World Order' plan enough and all that, it's just painfully obvious to anyone with eyes that aren't wide shut so I don't bother (is anyone elses head nearly bleeding from constantly bashing it against a brick wall? And you just sound more nuts and less believable the more blatant it all gets.... and it's seriously blatant now); the planned global financial collapse which we were telling people about at least 2 years ago; the constant barrage of bullshit "plots" like this one and mentally retarded programmed slaves to keep up the illusion and further the agenda for total control, psychologically preparing the masses for a forthcoming imminent attack by "Al Qaeda", obviously any attack (and I think they've got one coming very soon) will be carried out by MI5/6 in the UK of course (like 7/7). Anyway here's the Daily Mail link to the article. And link to story on more Nazi style dehumanization techniques, with the scanner that shows you totally nekked. Previous posts on surveillance society (it's all connected).

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

'Failsafe' face scanners could replace passport officers at airports


Facial recognition machines are to be installed at airports to replace passport officers under border control plans announced today.

The machines will scan a travellers' face to compare them with the images on their biometric passports and open an automated gate when a match is registered. [It's so easy, microchips would make it a hell of a lot easier though!]

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who unveiled details of the scheme today, claims it will shorten immigration queues and boost border security.

Air passengers who agree to fingerprint and face checks are currently fast-tracked through Heathrow

Critics fear, however, that the technology could generate too many false readings in which passengers with genuine passports are refused automatic entry.

There are also concerns that the replacement of personal inspections by passport officers could reduce the chances of detecting individuals who might otherwise be observed behaving suspiciously. [this has NOTHING to do with protecting us, fast-tracking us, or anything that would be beneficial like that to the masses at all]

A trial scheme will begin at Manchester Airport and will be expanded elsewhere in the country if it proves successful.

The facial scanners will be used to check passengers from the EU, Norway, Switzerland and Iceland and are intended to cut the time each traveller needs to clear passport control.

Ministers insist the technology is fail-safe and that when a passenger is refused automatic entry an immigration officer will be on hand to conduct a follow-up check on their status.

Passport control officers could disappear from airports and replaced with machines

Some critics believe the machines will be prone to error because of the inability of facial recognition systems to make perfect matches consistently.

They fear that this could lead to large queues and subject some passengers - such as the elderly - to an unnecessary ordeal each time they try to return to the country. [no doubt]

Ms Smith expressed confidence in the machines, however, and said they could play an important role in strengthening Britain's borders. [THE MACHINES WILL DESTROY US ALL!!!!!!!! Don't trust this Agent Smith!!! (I jest... but seriously look at the extremely helpful "coincidence" that occurred 1 day after her becoming home secretary)]

'The UK has one of the toughest borders in the world and we are determined to ensure it stays that way,' she said. [We're TOUGH!!! on those "foreign types"!]

'Our hi-tech electronic borders system will allow us to count all foreign nationals in and out of the UK, while checking them against watch lists.

'These checks make up just one part of Britain's triple ring of security, alongside fingerprint visas for three-quarters of the world's population, and the roll out of ID cards for foreign nationals, locking people to one identity.'

Most passengers from outside the EU are now required to obtain a biometric visa, with details of their fingerprints, before travelling to Britain. [biometric passports/visas are microchipped]

Daily Mail link. Watch the video in this BBC article too.

Thursday, 24 July 2008

"Internet Pirates" to be Subjected to Goverment Surveillance


The totalitarian machine roles on, coming to a broadband connection near you! Every single media outlet is parroting this exact same lines, showing how completely controlled the media is (the cost to the music industry... those poor poor corporate overlords how will they cope?!). This is a copy and paste job (including revolutionary Coldplay album cover image), from The Daily Mail, the last line literally made me laugh (they'd say anything to justify their bs). Internet nerds (myself included) kicking off the revolution? By the way, the post I'm working on has kind of mushroomed so will probably be a day or two yet. Also, by "government" I include ISPs watching what you do because they're all part of the machine and would undoubtedly be instructed to pass on any information the the gov't deems necessary, it doesn't specify so who knows, maybe GCHQ will be the one surveilling you.

Moves to revolutionise music downloading were unveiled today, including a plan for an annual fee for the right to copy unlimited tracks from the internet.

But parents of teenagers who illegally download music face being blacklisted and having their internet service curbed.

Households that ignore warnings could be subjected to online surveillance and have their internet speeds cut to make downloading large files more difficult.

Some 6.5million UK computer users download files illegally and the practice is expected to cost the music industry up to £1billion in lost CD sales over the next five years.

The new move is part of a major drive to clamp down on illegal downloading of music and films, uniting Britain's six biggest internet service providers (ISPs) and backed by the Government.

The fightback against online piracy will begin with letters from the ISPs to hundreds of thousands of the most prolific downloaders to inform them that their activity has been detected and is being monitored.

Parents of minors who illegally download music such as Coldplay's new Viva La Vida album will be sent letters telling them what their children have been doing.

It means many parents face discovering for the first time that their children have been using bedroom computers and laptops to become internet pirates.

All six big ISPs - BT, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse - were today announcing they have signed up to send out 'informative letters' to those customers identified as illegal file sharers by the British Phonographic Industry.

In return for cooperation from the ISPs, the Government has backed off from a tough proposal to disconnect broadband services for users caught out three times.

Such a 'three strikes and you're out' plan will be introduced next month in France.

At the same time as monitoring and punishing those who download illegally - outlawed under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 - the industry is looking at making it easier to buy music online legally.

Illegal download: Music pirates have targeted Coldplay's new album Viva La Vida

Culture Secretary Andy Burnham is backing calls from some sectors of the music industry for a levy of up to £30 on internet users who want to download music.

The money raised by the levy would be channelled back to the copyright owners.

Fergal Sharkey, the former Undertones singer who is now chief executive of British Music Rights, the body that represents musicians, told the Times: 'This is something of a step into the unknown for the internet providers, music industries and ministers.

'But we can't go on without it - no business can survive after losing as much revenue as the music industry has.'

Mr Sharkey told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme the agreement was a 'first step' and the details would now have to be worked out.

'Personally, I could envisage at one end of the scale, for nothing more than a couple of pounds a month, being allowed to download X amount of tracks, and possibly at the other end of the scale for a slightly larger sum of money there is the entire catalogue of the music industry and you can have of it as much as you want as frequently as you want, and any number of variations in between,' he said.

ISPs and film and music companies are expected to develop a new code of practice together on how they will deal with infringements, and the Government will then look at their proposals and consider how they can be backed up by new laws.

Downloading music and films has become one of the fastest-growing areas of the entertainment industry - despite concerns about piracy - as internet speeds have increased over the past decade.

In September 2004 the first official download chart, based on legal downloads, was unveiled, with Westlife's Flying Without Wings at number one.

Tracks legally downloaded outsold physical singles for the first time on the final week of that year.

The following year there were 26 million legal single-track downloads - a fourfold increase on 2004.

In January 2006, legal downloads overtook illegal file sharing in the UK for the first time, with five per cent of internet users regularly downloading music from legal sites, compared with four per cent who swap files illegally.

But paid downloads made up just nine per cent of respondents' digital music collections while 'free' downloads constituted 27 per cent, according to research group the Leading Question.

Last year nearly 78 million singles and more than six million albums were legally downloaded.

• The number of Britons suffering backache has more than doubled in a decade because of increasing computer use, researchers said today. At the same time, headaches have risen by 53 per cent among women and 35 per cent among men.

Friday, 4 July 2008

Deputy Mayor for (Controlling) Young People



Thought this deserved it's own post, first paragraph is moved from another post.

A press conference was held yesterday, about allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct (shocking!) against the "Deputy Mayor for Young People" Ray Lewis who was put on a list (Lambeth List) by the Church of England and was kicked out of it, which he denies even though the Church told the journalists this fact (the Lambeth list seems vague and it makes sense that he wouldn't know I think). This is just further evidence, and affirms my belief (logical conclusion based on the evidence I've seen) that "the system" is corrupt to the core, filled with state-sanctioned child abusers; revolution is necessary ASAP to save us all from imminent slavery. Boris Johnson, in reference to something someone alleged against himself ages ago he called the allegation, "an inverted pyramid of piffle"... he did not say that this time! Suspiciously I can't find a link online for the news story, will add it when they put one up. Edit: Here's one from the Guardian, funnily enough there's no mention of the allegations of sexual abuse in the article... because the media is controlled by the same pedophiles in government (and the same ones who will conduct the sham "investigation" of Ray Lewis).

Inverted glass pyramid at the Louvre, symbolic image.. considering.

Layers of black/white symbolism, note Ray Lewis' grid pattern shirt too. This was from yesterday, the top image was from when he was first given the position by Boris... spot the difference... Boris ANGRY!


We fully expected to program Britain's first Black Prime Minister. Note spiral chair legs, box, Eastside yellogo.

Evidence of his perverse voyeurism can be seen on his school's website "EASTSIDE YOUNG LEADERS' ACADEMY" located at EYLA, PO Box 23703 (places like this, seem to have symbolic addresses). No yellow brick road resonance here at all! But in his blog, he advertises all the latest Orwellian Big Brother tools (whilst not wanting to appear too obviously on the side of totalitarianism ((+total surveillance/control))): (this is copied and pasted from "The Director"'s blog)

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Big Brother………..!

Once again the Americans seem to be leading the way in addressing the perils of our so called feral teenagers! As we wrestle with the tyranny of technology, caused by social networking sites, and the general perils of life online our cousins across the pond are now well equipped with the new weapon in the parenting armoury – ‘teen tracking’. The world of specialised, electronic surveillance of young people; nothing illustrates this better than a device called the SnoopStick.


The SnoopStick looks like a memory stick. You plug it into your teenager's computer when they are not around and it installs stealth software on to the machine. Then you plug it into your own computer and sit back at your leisure and observe, in real time, exactly what your child is doing online - what websites they are visiting, the full conversations they are having and who they are sending emails to. The child has no idea their computer is being monitored and you, the parent, need not worry about missing any salacious, incriminating detail, because the software records everything, so you can download and view what your child was doing earlier on. It gives you the power (remotely) to cut off internet access or shut down the computer.

And surveillance of young people does not end there. Worried about what your teenager is getting up to in the car? There are lots of creepy solutions. Drive Cam, for instance, is an American system in which a small video recorder is mounted behind the rear-view mirror to capture sights and sounds inside and outside the vehicle.


You can get clothes with tracking devices fitted into them. For $79 you can buy a semen detection kit, to test your teenage daughter's clothing [...]. And for $99 you can buy a drug identification kit which can detect up to 12 different illegal drugs.



[Following paragraph he had to include to appear as though he says these things reluctantly, when clearly (first sentence of his post, "leading the way", implying that we should follow their lead) he wants these things to be used in the UK.]

For some the SnoopStick symbolises our modern obsession with control. Others feel that it is the only way to prevent their children sliding into moral decadence. But is this really a solution? My concerns include how it is we find ourselves at this juncture! Teen tracking begs the question what has gone wrong in the first place? These stop gap measures do not really fix the problem, lasting solutions are never found until we ask the right questions. The tyranny of technology is fuelled by the tyranny of intimacy, namely the lack of time and communication parents have given their children. And that is not just an American problem."

No mention of the conspiracy that has fueled those things and has led us to where we are today (global, apparently orchestrated; rise in the Orwellian police state). At least our "young people" are in good hands :S.

Edit: He has now resigned, again this is mostly speculation. If the allegations are untrue then I am extremely sorry to Mr. Ray Lewis (the timing wasn't good, having just written a lot about this stuff over the days before it), so I may have been too hasty.

Saturday, 3 May 2008

Channel 4's Freemasonic Fridays Part 1




Peep Show has been one of my favorite comedies since it's inception, so maybe this is not a conscious thing but just synchronicity. Peep Show's symbol/logo is the all seeing eye with the pupil off-centre, this could be synchronistically linked to the rise in the surveillance society. Below is the picture of the distributor's logo or something (it's on the first DVD anyway), all seeing eye representing C with luciferian light top left?



In Peep Show the characters sometimes wear "head cams" as most of the show is viewed from a first person perspective. Head cams like these (below left policemen, right david mitchell in peep show behind the scenes), that the voyeuristic masonic police have started to wear these days. The only difference being that they're obviously better camera's and they are positioned so the camera is between the eyes, this can be viewed as a symbolic representation of the third eye.
Edit: They've been trying to get an American version going for a while according to wikipedia Mitchell and Webb have said they want Steve Carell and Owen Wilson to be the leads, both people covered by synch bloggers. The episode on last night attracted 1.2 million viewers (7.7% of viewers).


The show preceding this one, Derren Brown's 'Trick of the Mind' had a TONNE of synchs in it which either tells me the whole thing is just a big faked joke or it's universal synchronicity proving it's truth, I'm downloading the show now so should have screens up with the synchs later tonight/tomorrow. Here's a preview of some of his older stuff, I wonder if this is how so much specific occult imagery gets into the media as every designer who puts a sun in their designs can't be sun worshippers, or someone who puts an all seeing eye in the design is not an "illumianti" member, or triangles/pyramids etc...

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