Loss of Privacy

Yet again, claims of fighting crime are used to justify the installation of Crime-fighting cameras.

The IRIS cams — also known as “intelligent cameras” — are being placed in downtown Orlando and Parramore.

Some of the same cameras were tested at Lake Eola last July 4. Local 6 showed video of the camera picking out faces from across the lake.

“God forbid something should happen to anybody,” resident Elizabeth Serge said. “They then have something on tape showing who they could go after and who could be the possible suspect.”

Yes, except they are promoting these cameras as a way to curb crime. It’s not preventing crime at all and, now that the criminals know they are there, it’s easy to disguise yourself and go about your crime committing life. Useless crap, just like in London.

A judge has forced a man that has admitted to molesting a boy to hang signs in his yard and on his car informing everyone that he is a sex offender.

The homemade signs reading “A Sex Offender Lives Here” are posted on all four sides of Leroy Schad’s white house in his central Kansas town of about 150 people.

As part of the order, his car is now emblazoned with bold yellow lettering reading “Sex Offender In This Car.”

If you’ve ever wondered how easy it is to hack anything with an RFID enabled chip, here’s your chance.

…hacker and inventor Pablos Holman shows Xeni how you can use about $8 worth of gear bought on eBay to read personal data from those credit cards — cardholder name, credit card number, and whatever else your bank embeds in this manner.

Happy sniffing.

In the war against illegal copying, no one is safe. DJs in Australia now have to pay for a license for their own music or face fines and/or imprisonment.

Yep, they need to pay a licence fee to copy music they already own legally to their iPods, laptops, or compilation CDs.

Criminal penalties for DJs involved in music piracy are up to sixty thousand dollars and 5 years imprisonment. There are also on-the-spot fines of over one thousand dollars.

Many schools in the UK are being fitted with CCTV cameras. The claim is that they are to protect teachers from unruly brats, however, the teachers claim they are being used to spy upon them.

Many of the Government’s semi-independent academies have installed cameras and two-way mirrors to let senior staff monitor pupils, they say.

But the 160,000-strong Association of Teachers and Lecturers fears that the systems are being used by heads to monitor staff performance, putting teachers’ ability to work independently at risk.

Somebody, somewhere convinced the British people that CCTV is the solution to all their problems. Only now, they are realizing, too late, that CCTV can’t, won’t, and isn’t able to solve anything.