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Police Surveillance Video can Look Inside Your Home Without Your Knowledge or Consent. 

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If you have taken a look at the stop lights at intersections over the last few years, you make noticed that almost every stop light has a camera mounted on it, providing police surveillance video. 

The media reported these cameras were installed for the traffic control center that most cities have, to provide visuals of traffic conditions and help officials make sure traffic flows smoothly. 

In Los Angeles the traffic control room is staffed by civilians and one police officer. 

Citizens were told officers are only there to observe traffic, since it is part of their jurisdiction, and not to catch people breaking the law. 

That seems hard to believe since people were getting tickets in the mail for infractions caught on police surveillance video. 

The idea was to put the mechanism for an extended police state into place first and later changing policy to using these cameras against any citizen who breaks a rule. 

So now law enforcement groups have access to police surveillance video of just about anywhere there is a stop light, and that pretty much covers the whole city of Los Angeles, and the same holds true in just about any major American City. 

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Once a Person is within Eyeshot of a Camera Their Identity is Known 

The next step is to combine the police surveillance video with face recognition software.

Let’s say the police, and for that matter anyone, who has learned how to tap into the networked camera signals, can simply find anyone they are looking for, whether they have broken any laws or not. 

It’s very simple. A person goes out on the street, on foot or in a vehicle, and the cameras catch his or her image.

The image is compared to the faces on a list of people of interest by the software in place.

When the software recognizes anyone of the list, the person seeking them is notified of their position along with a live image of their travels from intersection to intersection.

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Someone who Says They Have Nothing to Fear Might Rethink this Idea

In the sense of Orwell someone might respond that if they had done nothing wrong they would have nothing to fear. 

But doing “something wrong” does not necessarily equal breaking a law.

It could be any undesirable activity, undesirable by police or any other individual or entity, making use of the video feed. 

But the police departments of many cities are taking this to a completely new level by employing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, also known as spy drones to supply them with images from areas they haven’t placed their cameras yet. 

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Cameras where You Least Expect Them

A spy drone can fly high enough where its small profile cannot be seen by the human eye from the ground.

It can be outfitted with a standard camera or with infrared vision. 

With the infrared vision police have the ability to see inside an individual’s home and follow their private activities, whether going to the bathroom, being intimate or engaging in illegal or undesirable activities. 

This is a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment which guarantees that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. 

Is this the price we want to pay to keep people from violating laws?

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