Haystax technology is being used by DHS & police to spy on citizens

During the Superbowl in a building adjacent to MetLife Stadium in northern New Jersey, hundreds of people will be glued to their big screen — but they won’t be watching football.

Instead these analysts will be monitoring thousands of pieces of information steaming in from still thousands more state and local public safety officers on the ground in New York and New Jersey. It’s the big game’s command center and has been up and running weeks before the Super Bowl. The operation is headed up by the New Jersey State Police but the technology is provided by the Washington, D.C.-area's Haystax Technology, which has provided similar software for the last four Super Bowls.

Haystax  announced it will provide mobile apps designed to enhance security during Super Bowl XLVIII. The Haystax DS7 apps will be integrated into the Intrado THOR Shield® mobile communications and command center. Using a Marvel comics "Thor" acronym is a marketing ploy, for a gullible, clueless public.

“Boston woke people up,” Anthony Beverina, Haystax’s president of public safety, said at a demonstration this week of the system at the company’s McLean, Va., office.

Would you expect anything less from the company's president, exploiting the Boston Marathon bombing and reaping the profits. Using the threat of terrorism as an excuse is B/S, how much longer will Americans put up with this charade?

The software pools together data from thousands of law enforcement personnel reporting incidents and observations through an app, in addition to other tools like traffic cameras, Twitter posts and GPS. It then prioritizes the information based on importance. Analysts can also filter by information type, like only viewing suspicious package reports. All the most recent or most important pieces of information are plotted on a map that includes northern New Jersey and New York City.

For example, early on Tuesday afternoon, the top piece of information coming in was a suspicious activity report filed through the app by a cop who observed two men on a bus speaking loudly on cellphones in a foreign language. Other bits of information available by scrolling around the area map included reports of when team buses arrived and exited the stadium and disgruntled tweets complaining about NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell coming from a user Tweeting from Manhattan.

So in other words it was a colossal waste of money at the sacrifice of our rights!

New Jersey State Police Lt. Col. Ed Cetnar is in charge of the operation but in the weeks surrounding the big game, the map and incident reports are also available to cooperating agencies and other interested parties like New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. This level of cooperation between agencies has only been possible in the last few years as law enforcement personnel has seen the benefit of pooling resources, said Beverina. (Forget the NSA, police are willingly spying on innocent citizens for the federal govt.)

For big-time, regional events, being able to process information rapidly and communicating across different agencies is key, said Trooper Jeff Flynn, a spokesman for the New Jersey State Police.

"When you’re working with all these agencies — state, local, county — we have systems in place so that the lines of communication are open and we can cover as much area as possible," he said. "It's important and very useful so that we’re all on the same page." DHS & police agencies use the Multi-State Information Sharing & Anlysis Center to spy on citizens.

The state police will keep the software for daily use after Super Bowl XLVIII, something past hosts have used to their advantage. Tampa Bay, which hosted the Super Bowl in 2009, has since used the technology for the Republican National Convention in 2012 and "Gasparilla," the city's annual pirate festival that draws thousands and is Central Florida's version of Mardi Gras. Indianapolis, which hosted the game in 2012, used the software the following year to better secure schools in Marion and Hamilton counties. Information like building blueprints and emergency plans was included in the program that provides real-time information in a crisis situation such as a school shooting or a severe weather event.

The cost of the technology for Super Bowl XVIII was not immediately available, but Indianapolis used a $500,000 federal grant to pay for the program used during its Super Bowl and pays a roughly $80,000 maintenance fee now, according to news reports. The current version of the software, however, includes much more data.

The immediacy of the available data has gotten better and better, but there’s still a long way to go. Bryan Ware, Haystax’s chief technology officer, said Boston showed local law enforcement officials how valuable pooling together images from different sources (Instagram, CCTV cameras, Facebook and Twitter posts,) was in creating a visual timeline. “But there’s still no system that makes it easy to stick together video and imagery using their time stamps,” he said. “It still has to be done by hand.”
http://www.emergencymgmt.com/safety/Super-Bowl-Security-Cops-Sharing-Info.html

Indianapolis is using Haystax to spy on citizens:

Officials with the Indianapolis Division of Homeland Security have applied the high-tech security platform that protected the city’s Super Bowl experience to now protect everyday matters.

At the time, Super Bowl XLVI, hosted by Indianapolis, had the most sophisticated security technology available.

Local Homeland Security officials had the capability to monitor the venues in real time.

The security platform was so sensitive that it picked up on four people who simultaneously got sick in the Super Bowl village. A response team of bomb and chemical experts deployed to the scene determined that it was mere coincidence rather than something more sinister. (WTF? four people get sick and DHS uses it as an excuse to send in a tactical response team)

"They had the ability to ascertain the situation, send back pictures in real time, so we knew right away where they were at, what they were looking at and how to resolve it," Chief of Homeland Security Gary Coons said.

Over the past two years, city safety officials have expanded the same security platform to include hundreds of other vital city assets like hospitals, banks, communications facilities and key manufacturing sites.

The technology identifies points of contact, floor plans, evacuation and emergency plans and even radio frequencies.

"Everything that is deemed vital in infrastructure is on the map and we can attach plans and information to each of those local sites." Division of Homeland Security Maj. Ted Fries said.

Officials have incorporated more than 300 Indianapolis school facilities into the security (spying) platform.

Super Bowl security was provided by Mobile Pro Systems and Fluidmesh:

Steve Dunker, VP of business development for Minnesota-based Mobile Pro Systems (MPS) and Cosmo Malesci, co-founder and vice president of Fluidmesh, the Buffalo Grove, IL maker of Wireless mesh networks, which are the MPS standard for wirelessly linking mobile units together or as a backhaul to an Internet source.

According to Dunker, Mobile Pro Systems combines detection technologies with vision analytics to provide alerts on-site and/or remotely to notify security personnel as soon as there is unauthorized entry into a protected area. The Mobile Pro surveillance solutions enable rapid deployment of remote mobile camera systems into the field for instant monitoring to provide covert monitoring of possible illegal or terrorist ideas.

Wireless mesh networks are MPS's standard because they are highly reliable and cost effective and can be used in a mesh, point to point, or a point to multipoint configuration. MPS turned to industry leader Fluidmesh Networks “to lock in the win” for a secure Super Bowl, said Dunker.

The combination of 20 Commander 3400 MPS Video Surveillance Trailers, which feature a mobile power platform and an on-demand generator -- coupled with numerous MPS HopBox-GS units (portable gateway servers) and equipped with FM1200 VOLOs, Fluidmesh latest generation 2x2 MIMO radios running Prodigy 2.0 proprietary MPLS wireless protocol and capable of creating point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, and mesh networks -- were deployed around the stadium and other key event areas.
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/indy-uses-emergency-preparedness-technology-to-respond-to-disasters
http://www.gsnmagazine.com/node/40114?c=video_surveillance_cctv

Welcome to the United States of paranoia:

Feel like Big Brother is watching you these days? You’re not alone.

“This is not some far-out Orwellian scenario,” wrote the late William Safire of The New York Times in 2002, in the panicky aftermath of 9/11. “Here is what will happen to you: Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive . . . will go into what the Defense Department describes as ‘a virtual, centralized grand database.’ ”

Thirteen years after the Patriot Act, the world we live in, is worse than ever. Through a combination of fear, cowardice, political opportunism and bureaucratic metastasis, the FORMER land of the free has been transformed into a nation of closely spied upon subjects — a country of 300 million potential criminals, whose daily activities are being constantly monitored.

Once the most secret of organizations, the NSA has become even more famous than the CIA, the public face of Big Brother himself. At its headquarters on Savage Road in Fort Meade, Md., its omnivorous Black Widow supercomputer hoovers up data both foreign and domestic, while its new $2 billion data center near Bluffdale, Utah — the highly classified Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center — houses, well, just about everything.

As James Bamford wrote in Wired magazine two years ago, as the center was being completed:

“Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private e-mails, cellphone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails — parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital ‘pocket litter.’ ”

The IRS admitted targeting conservative groups before the 2012 election, subjecting them to extra scrutiny and delaying their nonprofit status. One group, Friends of Abe, says its application was held up for two years and they were asked to hand over a list of its members. Another, the National Organization for Marriage, alleged that the IRS leaked its 2008 tax return and donor lists.

The question is: To what end?

The administration says: Trust us, we’re only after the bad guys.

This is corporate America's greatest lie!

These days, Americans can’t expose themselves enough: Their smartphones constantly broadcast their whereabouts to law enforcement, while millions cheerfully post intimate personal details and embarrassing photographs of themselves and their families on social media.

The fact is, privacy has become a thing of the past, destroyed  our government, and the willing surrender of the citizenry.
http://nypost.com/2014/02/01/welcome-to-the-united-states-of-paranoia/?utm_content=buffer4708a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

For those who think we’ve always had security at Super Bowls:

Article first appeared in fromthetrenchesworldreport.com:

"I know there is always security at these Super Bowl games … never used to be. It started after 9/11 when Bush ordered our military air defenses to stand down and sent away from the NYC area during 9/11. It continued after all these false flags where Blackwater-style mercenary contractors, or agency provocateurs, started placing patsies in various situations causing fear to be induced into the public like the Aurora shooting, the Sandy Hook shooting, the Boston Bombing etc.

The American people have been increasingly subjected to tighter and tighter security i.e. through TSA and DHS. Yet, we have NOT managed to catch even ONE terrorist. Now Constitutionalists are being called the new “terrorists”. Really?  

The American people are being subjected to more and more military presence in our daily lives with tighter and tighter security. The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms and now there is an attempt by our government to do away with the Constitution and God-given rights of Americans so they can be more easily controlled.

I can no longer hold my silence. In my 64 years on this planet, I have never seen an attempt by our government to take our rights away like I see it now. There will come a time where we will see military standing guard with high-powered rifles at our airports, train stations, bus stations, and stop and searches of our own vehicles and property right here in the United States just like what occurs daily in some of these other Communist countries."
http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/for-those-who-think-weve-always-had-security-at-super-bowls/74828#more-74828