One of the most insightful comments I’ve had about my current employer
\nwhen along the lines of this: You’re the most paranoid person I know.
\nNow you’re a professional paranoid for The Man. It’s perfect!<\/i> There’s
\na twisted logic there that makes sense.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nToday I played Big Brother. I was the guy behind the proverbial (ahem!) \nOne of the key lessons of the day is that mass surveillance serves only to \nA second lesson is that the ratio of data examined to data collected is \nSurveillance is only useful when something has happened, or you’re waiting \nThis kinda makes art\/activist adventures like the Surveillance Camera \nThough my employers have implemented a biometric \nThe ACLU \nIn my opinion anyone intent on undermining the such a system should be \nNone of which, of course, means you shouldn’t join the fight<\/a> to protect your rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n ——<\/p>\n UPDATE 01\/26\/03: The U.S. Senate’s been on an anti-Orwell roll recently One of the most insightful comments I’ve had about my current employer when along the lines of this: You’re the most paranoid person I know. Now you’re a professional paranoid for The Man. It’s perfect! There’s a twisted logic there that makes sense. Today I played Big Brother. I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[20,21,23],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-line","tag-immigration","tag-national-security","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nmirrored glass. I was the guy watching the screen that goes to the camera
\n that was watching you. Yes, I was the guard of the panopticon<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nadvise the distribution of resources. The cameras I watched were primarily
\nused to monitor the arrival of flights and the crowd movements of a couple
\nthousand people. Officers can be allowed to leave the inspection area to
\ntake care of other business when there are no passengers. Surveillance
\nmakes it possible to have enough advanced notice that they can be called
\nback to greet arrivals. The result is you never show up and find there’s
\nnobody to let you in.<\/p>\n
\neffectively 1\/∞. Somewhere there is a computer storing the movements
\nof every one of the thousands of people who moved through the airport
\ntoday. From their approach to their movement through the airport to their
\ndeparture – every second was on camera. I don’t know how many cameras the
\nairport has but I suspect they number over a thousand. The mass of data is
\nso great it it would take over three continious years for one person to
\nexamine one day’s recordings. (Ten people? Three months.) How fast would
\nthat fill up your hard-drive? The honest truth is people aren’t very
\ninteresting to watch on a surveillance camera. All the nuances that makes
\n“people watching” fun are lost unless you get lucky. I saw someone dancing
\non the tarmac while he waited for a late flight to arrive, but the only
\nreason I noticed is I was waiting for it too. Web cams were the neat-o
\nthing a while back, but they kinda when the way of the blink tag. With
\ngood reason.<\/p>\n
\nfor something specific to happen. I think that’s the problem Reality TV
\nruns into on occasion – when nothing happens, nobody watches. If we know
\nsomeone interesting is arriving we can watch them all the way through the
\nairport. In our case, so we can have them met by officers. If we want to
\nknow where someone came from (e.g. so we can send them back there) we can
\nfollow them backwards to their origin. But until someone becomes
\ninteresting, they’re just players in a film that will never be watched.<\/p>\n
\nPlayers<\/a>’ and World
\nSousveillance Day<\/a> a waste when the object is security cameras and the
\naudience The Watchers because… we probably won’t notice. Those around
\nyou will though and that’s probably more important anyway. Taking a photo
\nof me<\/i> in uniform, however, may result in the removal of your film
\nbecause I don’t want my face on a “Dead or Alive” poster (something that
\nnever occurs to most people), but that doesn’t have much to do with
\nsurveillance cameras.<\/p>\n
\nsystem<\/a> or two, the experience so far is that they aren’t worth the
\ntime or money. INSPASS has effectively been cancelled, the machines gather
\ndust in the inspection area like punch-card computers. NSEERS is continued
\ndespite it’s gross inefficiencies (cost\/number of arrests) for national
\nsecurity reasons (heh).<\/p>\n
\nwarns<\/a> that Americans “havent yet felt the full potential of the new
\ntechnology for invading privacy because of latent inefficiencies in how
\ngovernment and businesses handle information.” I agree, but to be honest,
\nthe more I know about how its done the more comfortable I get. One of the
\ngreatest ironies of the Pentagon’s now-notorious Total
\nInformation Awareness project<\/a> is that its head, Rear Adm. John
\nPoindexter, would be a target of constant detentions and searches because
\nof his felony convictions. Do you think Mr. Poindexter will reconsider
\nwhen gets deported from somewhere because of his previous convictions?
\nMaybe he doesn’t travel.<\/p>\n
\ncalling for zero tollerance enforcement instead of a
\nmoratorium on development of a single database<\/a>. Besides, it’s networks
\nof databases<\/a>
\nyou have to worry about, not a centralized database. Yes, it’s always the
\nprivate sector that pioneers
\nthese<\/a> things in the first place. But we must remember that even when
\nmoney’s involved, it’s not
\neasy to sync the person and the action<\/a> even if you get
\nall the information correct<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nfirst they suspended
\nfunding Total Information Awarness<\/a> and then they did the same to the
\nNational Security
\nEntry-Exit Registration System<\/a>. Both of these programs it the presses
\nhard recently which might explain the Upper House’s special attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"