Mesh Network documents reveal police vehicles have real-time access to DHS spy cameras
New documents hidden deep inside the 2012 proposal request (# DIT-2996) give even greater detail into the government’s ability to track and database virtually any person.
The file entitled the “Police Video Diagram” proves police officers’ ability to access and control live-video feed from the city’s expansive collection of surveillance cameras, from their police cruisers.
A section of a “specification spreadsheet” also confirms police vehicles’ access to city cameras as well. The upper right-hand corner of the diagram specifies the company which supplied the in-car video viewing screens, Coban Technologies of Houston, Texas. The VMDT (Video Mobile Data Terminal) Gen II, likely capable of audio/video recording any live video feed accessed, was likely tied into the mesh network at a later time as their use dates back to 2007. A lawsuit filed in King County Superior Court by Fischer Broadcasting (Komo 4 News) in 2011 accused Seattle police of breaking state public records law by refusing to release “retained” video recorded with the Coban system.
The diagram and spreadsheet give even more validity to earlier reports that showed multiple agencies having access to all cameras tied into the mesh network. One spreadsheet section asks that “outside agencies shown on the diagram” be given access and control of cameras tied into the mesh network, including the controversial Homeland Security-run Fusion Center, which was labeled a “useless and costly effort that tramples on civil liberties” by the United States Senate.
Seattle’s secret participation in the TrapWire program, which used sophisticated facial recognition software ran through city CCTV cameras, leaves the question as to whether the mesh system’s camera access will be run through similar software programs at the whim of unknown federal agencies.
http://www.storyleak.com/new-mesh-network-documents-confirm-police-vehicles-real-time-access-dhs-spy-cameras/
Here's a disturbing look at Coban Technologies spying by police & DHS in Seattle & Santa Barbara.
To learn more about the COBAN EDGE spying systems police are using click here & here.
Here's more information about the Coban Video Mobile Data Terminal (VMDT)
Thanks to a DHS grant the LAPD & the Hillsborough, CA., police are using the Coban system.
Some police departments who've received DHS grants are using the Mobile Audio Video Recording In-Car Systems (MAVRICS) and FUSION HD to spy on citizens.
Big brother is watching us: So what?