Las Vegas Installs 'Intellistreets' Light Fixtures Capable Of Recording Conversations
The Las Vegas Public Works Department has begun testing a newly installed street light system around City Hall with wide-ranging capabilities including audio and video recording.
According to the Michigan based “Illuminating Concepts,” the system’s main benefits include “energy management, security and entertainment.” The Las Vegas setup includes such features as emergency notification flashers, playable music and a sound announcement system, all controlled from an Ipad.
“Actually, there’s a server that’s housed by the company that’s providing this product and we’re communicating with just a wireless, wi-fi connection,” Neil Rohleder of the Public Works Department told My News 3.
The company’s lights, which also offer a “Homeland Security” feature, received major backlash in 2011 following reports of the system’s federally-funded roll out across the country. The feature allows for emergency government announcements which will likely include such slogans as “See Something, Say Something” as well as other irrationally fear-based messages already seen in Wal Mart’s DHS-run “telescreens.”
Local privacy advocate Daphne Lee has begun speaking out against the system, pointing to the ever-increasing surveillance dragnet cast over everyday innocent Americans.
“This technology, you know is taking us to a place where, you know, you’ll essentially be monitored from the moment you leave your home till the moment you get home,” said Lee.
The Public Works Department claims they have no plans to use the system’s surveillance cameras… for now, leading many to believe the plan is already well underway as city-wide implementation is discussed.
“Right now our intention is not to have any cameras or recording devices…it’s just to provide output out there, not to get any feed or video feed coming back,” said Public Works Director, Jorge Servantes.
In light of the TrapWire system, a sophisticated program that uses advanced facial recognition software through regular CCTV surveillance cameras across the country, the likelihood of the city’s cameras being covertly used by the federal government, or with permission, remains a likely outcome.
Talking street lights have already been implemented in parts of Europe for a number of years. Apartment residents in North London were shocked to discover cameras ordering them to stay away from their communal garden, warning them that their photograph was being taken for entering a “restricted area.”
“At what point do we say this is the land of the free? People have a right to a reasonable amount of privacy,” Lee added.
As new NSA revelations widen the general public’s understanding of just how pervasive the surveillance state has become, the real question lies in whether or not the public will demand accountability as well as their privacy rights.
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Permalink Reply by Vincent L. Guarisco on
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Well, I live 90 miles away from those erect jewels. And if they do bug all the lampposts and do acquire the ability to hear us, I just may have to stop at one and have a quick conversation. I probably would offer the following:
"Dear Mr. NSA Lamppost, how are you today? I'm glad you find my every conversation so interesting! Let me enlighten you with bit of trivia. Gosh, It would seem that humans are not the most perceptive species on the planet! I say this because for as long as I have walked the streets... there seems to be a repetitive anomaly that keeps reoccurring. It has become apparent that a certain animal species (with four legs) is extremely intuitive beyond my wildest dreams. I often wondered why "Dogs" get such satisfaction in hoisting their hind leg in the air to urinate on you. Well, Mr. Lamppost, I used to view this as a nasty habit, but now... I have new sense of admiration for the animal kingdom. Especially those with four legs and a full bladder. Bye, bye for now... and until we meet again and you awaken from the wickedness of your ways, have a nice wet dream."
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Seriously though, we need to get a handle on this. It's way out of control!
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Permalink Reply by Central Scrutinizer on
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see below ;)
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Permalink Reply by mystery on
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it goes on and on, the list is so extensive. It is 1984! George Orwell told us it would happen, or was it someone else trying to control our thinking slowly swaying us into thinking it is ok, the more we are watched the better off we are? Big sister, big brother, I am sorry I am an only child, and that's the way I like it! "Jackyl"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYTy1rvzCfQ&feature=player_detai...
HELLO PEOPLE?????
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By the way they are just good ole boys when the show is over. Tequila and a little lime. The furniture was trashed but the memory lives on.
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but do their clothes fall off??? ;)
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