Surveillance News

Surveillance News From AOL News

Pentagon to Buy More Tethered Balloons to Watch Over Afghanistan

Helium-filled balloons equipped with cameras are gaining popularity with the U.S. military as a cheaper alternative to using high-flying drones in Afghanistan, and now the Pentagon plans to buy another half dozen of the tethered craft to keep watch over the Kandahar Airfield. The Pentagon has already deployed tethered...

Police: Sausage Thief Wore No Pants

You don't want to see how sausage gets made -- and you probably don't want to see how this sausage got stolen. Police in Florida arrested a man they say was captured on video stealing sausage naked. Investigators in Estero say Joshua Ryan Abernathy, 34, walked into the Mariner's Cove Club House nude on Jan. 7 and...

Did NY Jewelers Hire Phony Hasidic Jews in 'Snatch'-Like Heist? [VIDEO]

It's the video they didn't want you to see. In a caper that recalls the Guy Ritchie crime film "Snatch," prosecutors say the owners of a jewelry store in New York City's Diamond District staged a fake robbery committed by perps wearing phony beards and black coats while disguised as Hasidic Jews, according to the New York...

5 Questions About the Air Force's Gorgon Stare Drone

The military is expected soon to send a new sensor system on its Reaper unmanned aircraft flying over Afghanistan that can keep watch over entire cities. The Air Force has even named the new "all seeing" system Gorgon Stare, after the mythological creature that could turn people into stone with her stare. But in reality,...

Smile, Your License Plate's on Town's Candid Camera

TIBURON, Calif. (Nov. 7) -- Drive a car into this affluent town on San Francisco Bay and you will be noticed. At least your license plate will. The small community of Tiburon has begun photographing and recording the license plate of every vehicle that enters or leaves town. The goal is to catch criminals in an area that...

Surveillance News From AOL

AUTOBLOG

Report: California 9/11 license plate funds used to shore up deficit

We've never really understood the logic behind purchasing a specialized license plate to fund some sort of cause.

THE HUFFINGTON POST - BUSINESS

DHS Seeks To 'Accelerate' Use Of Drones By Police

The Department of Homeland Security has launched a program to "facilitate and accelerate the adoption" of small, unmanned drones by police and other public safety agencies, an effort that an agency official admitted faces "a very big hurdle having to do with privacy."

THE HUFFINGTON POST - TECHNOLOGY

Surveillance News From the Web

06/01/12 Hot Drone on Drone Action (Turse) Source: Informed Comment It's now commonly estimated that more than 50 nations have drones, are making plans to develop them, or are at least planning to buy them from those who do produce them.
06/01/12 Security expert warns smartphone users of the risks in... Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Pittsburgh PA Armed with a sheet of black-and-white stickers resembling a cross between traditional USB barcodes and a Rorschach test, security expert Eric Mikulas embarked on a mission to protect the city's smartphones.
05/31/12 Open thread for night owls: Civil liberties be damned Source: Daily Kos As you may recall, the New York Times belatedly told the nation about the government's secret domestic spying program in December 2005.
05/31/12 Unmanned planes taking off in Wilmington Source: ABC - WCPO 9 - Cincinnati OH More planes are taking off from the little used Wilmington Air Park, but those planes don't have pilots.
05/31/12 CCTV captures robbery at E-Games branch Source: ABS-CBN News A closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera captured a robbery incident inside a branch of E-Games along Meralco Avenue in Pasig City. The footage showed the unidentified robber drawing his gun upon entering the online casino, triggering panic among the customers.

Background on Surveillance

Surveillance ( or ) is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting.

more at wikipedia »