Surveillance

Video Safety signs bus surveillance deal with MBTA
155 new Massachusetts Bay buses will receive full digital video coverage; networked system will allow live feeds to police cars
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Brazil's electronic security market posts 15 percent annual gains
A $1.1 billion market exists for those in the biometrics and CCTV game; Priel Metal Detector earns special attention
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Berkeley professor looks to anonymize CCTV coverage
Privacy advocates applaud this method of blocking out the faces of pedestrians
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FLIR shows new thermal imaging camera
Thermal imaging is becoming more popular for security and surveillance missions, and FLIR, a thermal imaging specialist, offers a new line of low-cost passive imaging systems
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Italian scandals launch a market for encypted phones
After a prince is caught talking about prostitutes and stolen slot machines, encryption companies find a new market among the rich, powerful, and beautiful
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Library confidentiality law stymies sharing of CCTV footage
Dirty old man may get away scot free after the Wisconsin attorney general rules that prosecutors need a warrant
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British test "Bug" intelligent video system
Viseum’s anti-Asbo approach turns heads from Luton to Chester; West Midlands considers buying an Israeli UAV capable of identifying license plates from 500 feet
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UK officials propose national CCTV standards
Proliferation of digital cameras has made work difficult for law enforcement authorities; proposed standards would have to conform to video analytics needs
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Northrop, IAI to collaborate on small, light stellites
The military and the intelligence community are showing a growing interest in small, light, and cheap satellites; Nortrhop hopes to ride this interest to greater prominence in the satellite market
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SAIC settles dispute with Greek government
Installed for the 2004 Olympics, C4I system requires additional work; disagreement was headed for arbitration
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Boeing prepares SBInet roll-out
Company succesfully tests its integrated mobile sensor towers; deployment expected by end of May
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DARPA's next-generation disposable transmitter
Defense officials imagine a method in which spies could input information into a PDA, print out a tranmitter tag, and stick it to a wall to be read to UAVs
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Verint to install Mexican wiretapping system
Agencia Federal de Investigacions agents will be able to listen in on telephone calls and intercept e-mail
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Shoulder-mounted camera tracks hand movements
British scientists test a system that permits a single police officer to survey and photograph a crime scene by pointing; objects are mapped auutomatically for later investigation
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