Tag: surveillance
License readers are Orwellian
The Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department have installed and are currently using Automatic License Plate Readers, or cameras mounted to poles and patrol cars, which have the ability to record every passing vehicle's license plate, along with the time, date and location they passed by.
Surveillance targeted in lecture
Gary T. Marx, emeritus professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Hixon-Riggs professor of science, technology and society at Harvey Mudd College, came to the University of La Verne to speak about issues involving technological control of America in his lecture “Being Watched and Watching In the New Surveillance Society.”
Land of the free?
One of the most valuable privileges United States citizens have is the ability to live their lives with a certain amount of privacy and freedom.
Can’t we focus on the real threats?
In its highly publicized campaign against terrorism, the FBI has been spending funds to monitor nonviolent activist groups, place wiretaps on civilians and conduct unwarranted searches.