Surveillance

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    Streetlights That Watch Passersby & Turn Them Into Big Data

    Smart LEDs are installed in Newark Liberty International AirportThe Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Not so long ago, LEDs were like the slide rule of the lighting world, found mostly in the lovably geekiest of places: front panels of technical […]
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    The Uncertainty Baked Into NSA Surveillance—and the Internet

    Over the weekend, more details emerged about the U.S. federal government’s no-longer-secret digital-surveillance program code-named PRISM. The project gave the National Security Agency (NSA) and other agencies unprecedented access to data, like emails and chats, going through popular services owned by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and other Internet giants. After this additional information about PRISM seeped […]