Affaires et Corruption. Combat Zones That See. Combat Zones That See, or CTS, is a project of the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) [1] whose goal is to "track everything that moves" in a city by linking up a massive network of surveillance cameras to a centralised computer system.[2] Artificial intelligence software will then identify and track all movement throughout the city.[3] CTS is described by DARPA as intended for use in combat zones, to deter enemy attacks on American troops and to identify and track enemy combatants who launch attacks against American soldiers.[2] Civil liberties activists and writers of dystopian fiction believe that such programs have great potential for privacy violations, and have openly opposed the project.[2][4][5] See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
Gotcha Spiral II Radar System. The objective of this effort is to create a radar system that shall collect and archive data covering a wider "city-sized" area of 10km (threshold) to 20km (objective) diameter spot. - Federal Business Opportunities: Oppo. AFRL's Gotcha Radar to Widen Stare. "Gotcha" is the cute name for an experimental system that collects vast amounts of synthetic-aperture radar data from an aircraft circling an urban area and processes it into 3D video for real-time surveillance and forensic analysis.
Now the US Air Force Research Laboratory is looking to identify potential sources for a Gotcha Spiral 2, a dual-band (X/UHF) radar system capable of staring at a city-sized area 10-20km in diameter and downlinking the data for ground processing. The key behind Gotcha is that data are collected in a single radar mode, then processed in a supercomputer to produce a range of products, including "super-resolution" 2D imagery, 3D video, ground moving-target indication and coherent change detection. Imagery can be viewed in near real-time, or an analyst can backtrack through the store of radar data to find out what led up to an event. VIRAT. Concept diagram of the VIRAT system, from the DARPA project solicitation[1]
Everything You Need to Know About TrapWire, the Surveillance System Everyone Is Freaking Out About. Just FYI, having waded through about a metric shit ton of conspiracy theories about TrapWire over the weekend, I think you've got it wrong when you say people are freaked out because they believe TrapWire was "secret.
" Pretty much every report I've read — including from the "I wear a platinum shield to bed" set — has had links to the very public patents and other documentation of TrapWire. What's freaking people out: 1) Bizarre, incorrect claims about facial recognition; and 2) Not-so-bizarre and potentially interesting claims about the fact that private CCTVs are now networked into a national surveillance system. The question with 2) is whether you have a reasonable expectation of privacy in, say, a private building with CCTVs whose feeds you think will never go beyond the doorman.
If you DO have that expectation of privacy, and a court finds it "reasonable," but the government is tapping into that feed, that's a problem. Stratfor emails reveal secret, widespread TrapWire surveillance system. PATENT Legal Intercept - Microsoft Corporation. Plain old telephone service (POTS) allows people from all over the world to talk to each other through the use of telephones.
POTS has been around since the late 19th century and has remained basically the same. In traditional usage, POTS has transmitted voice communications using electrical signals that are transmitted via pairs of wires. Central offices establish connections between callers and those called. Sometimes, a government or one of its agencies may need to monitor communications between telephone users. To do this with POTS, after obtaining the appropriate legal permission, a recording device may be placed at a central office associated with a selected telephone number. The subject matter claimed herein is not limited to embodiments that solve any disadvantages or that operate only in environments such as those described above. Briefly, aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to silently recording communications. Microsoft seeks patent for spy tech for Skype. News June 28, 2011 05:06 PM ET Computerworld - Editor's note: An earlier version of this story said the Legal Intercept patent had been granted.
The patent application is still being processed. A technology called Legal Intercept that Microsoft hopes to patent would allow the company to secretly intercept, monitor and record Skype calls. And it's stoking privacy concerns. Microsoft's patent application for Legal Intercept was filed in 2009, well before the company's $8.5 billion purchase of Skype in May. From Microsoft's description of the technology in its patent application, Legal Intercept appears similar to tools used by telecommunication companies and equipment makers to comply with government wiretap and surveillance requests. According to Microsoft, Legal Intercept is designed to silently record communications on VoIP networks such as Skype.
"Modification may include, for example, adding, changing, and/or deleting data within the data. The USA Freedom Act: Bill to end NSA’s bulk collection of phone records advances. By ReutersThursday, May 8, 2014 13:13 EDT By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bill to end the government’s bulk collection of telephone records got a unanimous go-ahead on Thursday from a second U.S. congressional committee, advancing the first legislative effort at surveillance reform since former contractor Edward Snowden revealed the program a year ago.
The House of Representatives Intelligence committee voted unanimously by voice vote for the “USA Freedom Act,” which would end the National Security Agency’s practice of gathering information on calls made by millions of Americans and storing them for at least five years. Welcome to the CIA Web Site — Central Intelligence Agency. Intelligence Defined. Conversation with Jennifer Sims, p. 3 of 5. Jennifer Sims Interview: Conversations with History; Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley Page 3 of 5 Intelligence, the work of government, the use of intelligence in government, is not scientific inquiry.
The word "intelligence" is bandied around, and it makes the listener or the reader think that, in fact, there's a formula, there's one piece of information that would reveal the world to us and how we should act. Help us understand that a little. When we're bandying this word around, what should we understand intelligence to mean? The definition of intelligence that I use is the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information tailored to the needs of the national security decision-makers. It's interesting because one of the greatest coups in the history of intelligence for the U.S. was the Battle of Midway during World War II.
Executive Orders.