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Poking the Red Eye

By David W. Boles on March 1, 2010 11:41 AM | 2 Comments

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.

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Peeping Google

By David W. Boles on September 2, 2009 10:00 AM | 2 Comments

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?

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Watching the Athens Wildfires

By David W. Boles on August 27, 2009 1:13 PM | No Comments

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:

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Stolen Eyes: Rage Against the Panopticon

By David W. Boles on July 28, 2009 10:05 AM | 2 Comments

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

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Peppering the Surveillance Shaker

By David W. Boles on May 29, 2009 8:39 AM | 4 Comments

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.

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Tracked in Wisconsin

By David W. Boles on May 12, 2009 9:14 AM | 4 Comments

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.

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Surveillance is Good for You

By Jamie Grace on January 15, 2009 3:36 PM | 6 Comments

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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Recently in Surveilling Category

Poking the Red Eye

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Watching the Athens Wildfires

Stolen Eyes: Rage Against the Panopticon

Peppering the Surveillance Shaker

Tracked in Wisconsin

Surveillance is Good for You

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