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Poking the Red Eye

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In a great civilian uprising against -- the Panopticonic Red Light Camera -- those unblinking red eyes are being closed in the polling place by voter fury.

Peeping Google

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First we had NASA spying on Athens to help "fight the fire" and now we have Google being used to peep in on the tragic life of kidnapped-but-found-again Jaycee Lee Dugard -- but all in the name of "newsgathering."  Are we in any way offended that Google's maps can be so easily used to dig into the private lives of others?

Watching the Athens Wildfires

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The Athens wildfires have devastated much of the countryside, but what we find most interesting is the speed in which NASA provided satellite imagery to Greece to help that government effort track wildfire patterns:

Sometimes it takes a criminal act to set us free from the Panopticonic Eye of our government watchers. 

For the price of a US dollar, our Panopticonic universe just became a little smaller -- or larger if you're a fan of being spied upon by strangers -- with the release of "Surveillance Shaker" a new iPhone App that now lets you, with the shake of your iPhone, silently surveil the world without the watched knowing you're watching.

Tracked in Wisconsin

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A court in Wisconsin upheld the legal right of police attaching a GPS device to a vehicle without a warrant and without needing to alert the person being tracked.

Surveillance is Good for You

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Police in the UK increasingly use new monitoring and tracking technology to capture burglars and 'home invaders,' as well as car thieves. Suburban houses in high-crime hotspots are turned into Panopticonic dens with enough camera equipment inside them to identify an offender wherever they move within a building.

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  • David W. Boles: Yes, and it's good to see the citizens taking back read more
  • Gordon Davidescu: That's right, David. It's craziness that your fate in court read more
  • Gordon Davidescu: No cameras about when I went to school... then again, read more
  • Gordon Davidescu: Well writ! Of course, the school can't stop a student read more
  • Kathakali Chatterjee: I remember having a pretty regimented life as far as read more
  • David W. Boles: It doesn't change it for me, Gordon. School property has read more
  • Gordon Davidescu: Ah, but that's the catch -- these weren't poor students read more
  • David W. Boles: Right! "You're required to have this laptop, and we're going read more
  • Gordon Davidescu: That's the catch, David. The school doesn't give the students read more
  • David W. Boles: This is a fascinating case, Gordon. I'm sure some people read more