Spying street lights which record video & audio at the Mercedes Superdome & in Vegas
The Las Vegas Public Works Department has begun testing a newly installed street light system around City Hall. These new street lights are capable of recording video and audio.
The lights are currently being tested in Las Vegas but they could soon be positioned on public streets throughout the city.
We've all learned what federal authorities are capable of through the National Security Agency, with recordings of cell phone conversations and emails. This is yet another attempt by authorities to potentially invade our privacies.
“This technology, you know is taking us to a place where, you know, you’ll essentially be monitored from the moment you leave your home till the moment you get home,” said civil rights activist Daphne Lee.
“At what point do we say this is the land of the free? People have a right to a reasonable amount of privacy,” Lee added.
According to the Michigan based “Illuminating Concepts,” the system’s main benefits include “energy management, security and entertainment.” The Las Vegas setup includes such features as emergency notification flashers, playable music and a sound announcement system, all controlled from an Ipad.
“Actually, there’s a server that’s housed by the company that’s providing this product and we’re communicating with just a wireless, wi-fi connection,” Neil Rohleder of the Public Works Department told My News 3.
According to the Intellights projects website the Navy Pier in Chicago and the City of Auburn Hills also in Chicago have installed the spy lights. One more HUGE revelation: The Mercedes Benz Superdome in New Orleans has them! A SUPERDOME EQUIPPED TO SPY ON KIDS, FAMILIES ETC.!
DHS is using facial recogntion to identify families & kids at hockey games:
http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2013/11/dhs-spied-on-almost-300000-families.html
The company’s lights, which also offer a “Homeland Security” feature, received major backlash in 2011 following reports of the system’s federally-funded roll out across the country. The feature allows for emergency government announcements which will likely include such slogans as “See Something, Say Something” as well as other irrationally fear-based messages already seen in Wal Mart’s DHS-run “telescreens.”
Local privacy advocate Daphne Lee has begun speaking out against the system, pointing to the ever-increasing surveillance dragnet cast over everyday innocent Americans.
The Public Works Department claims they have no plans to use the system’s surveillance cameras… for now, leading many to believe the plan is already well underway as city-wide implementation is discussed.
“Right now our intention is not to have any cameras or recording devices…it’s just to provide output out there, not to get any feed or video feed coming back,” said Public Works Director, Jorge Servantes. (That's TOTAL B/S just like when the Patriot Act was passed, our spy agencies had no intention of spying on Americans)
In light of the TrapWire system, a sophisticated program that uses advanced facial recognition software through regular CCTV surveillance cameras across the country, the likelihood of the city’s cameras being covertly used by the federal government, or with permission, remains a likely outcome.
Talking street lights have already been implemented in parts of Europe for a number of years. Apartment residents in North London were shocked to discover cameras ordering them to stay away from their communal garden, warning them that their photograph was being taken for entering a “restricted area.”
As new NSA revelations widen the general public’s understanding of just how pervasive the surveillance state has become, the real question lies in whether or not the public will demand accountability as well as their privacy rights.
http://www.mynews3.com/content/news/story/New-downtown-light-system-capable-of-more-than/226vPp0cdkyVfwul9kos9g.cspx
http://infinitynewsnetwork.com/2012/05/15/skynet-is-here-talking-surveillance-cameras-coming-to-a-street-near-you/
http://www.infowars.com/talking-surveillance-cameras-coming-to-u-s-streets/
http://www.storyleak.com/las-vegas-installs-intellistreets-light-fixtures-capable-video-recording/
http://lightingcontrolsassociation.org/intellistreets-wins-ies-lighting-control-innovation-award-of-merit/
A disturbing article about "Intellistreets" or spying street lights:
http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2011/11/disturbing-article-about-intellistreets.html
New video acknowledges "Intellistreets" street lights are equipped with spying capabilities:
http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-video-acknowledges-intellistreets.html
