Chicago is launching a creepy new campaign to blanket the mega-city in
more surveillance through its Array of Things, creating a network of (at
least) 500 sensors devices that will be shared in a growing Big Data cloud.
As The Chicago Tribune reports:.
The first of a network of data-collecting sensors that could one day
blanket Chicago are now live.
The city installed two nodes containing computers and
sensors including low-resolution cameras as well as air quality sensors
last week. They went up on traffic light poles at Damen and Archer avenues in
the McKinley Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side and Damen and Cermak
Road in the Heart of Chicago on the Lower West Side. The installation marks
the launch of the Array of Things project, which was conceived in 2012 and originally slated to start in mid-2014.
The project is a collaboration between the University of Chicago, Argonne National
Laboratory and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. AT&T is the internet provider for the project,
which is backed by a $3.1 million grant from the National
Science Foundation.
The selling point is that many of the sensors will collect data about air
quality and monitor traffic patterns for public safety.
But in reality, Chicago is a failing, gang-infested and corrupt city that
epitomizes the collapse of America. These sensors, and the thousands of other
surveillance cameras and input devices are erecting an electronic
concentration camp inside the nation’s most chaotic and unruly areas.
Simply put, Chicago will quickly become one of the United States’ foremost
police states, though they will be in good company with Seattle as a partner
city, and most of the rest of the metros across the country soon to follow.
Be warned, things get darker from here.
The data will be publicly ‘released’ and also shared with city officials,
“policy makers”, scientists/experts, law enforcement and (surely) government
agencies, all of whom will process and analyze the data.
By making data public, it makes everyone a participant in their own
enslavement, making the ultimate ‘transparency’ the data invasion of your
life.
This article could go on for a while with in depth examples of how quickly
the total surveillance society is taking over, and why we shouldn’t take it
lying down.
Suffice to say, wise money will be diversified into cash, assets and raw
survival supplies. There are 1001 ways in which your wealth is being looted
and, your activities monitored, and your energy is being drained on the grid.
But soon, that grid will be almost impossible to escape from. Ever wanted
to live life as a number?
Here’s what the CIA and NSA have been drooling over, while they watch the
world opt into data rape:
Petraeus: “We’ll Spy On You Through Your Dishwasher”
The new age has dawned. Tagged, traced, tracked. Nearly every member in
society is leaving a huge web of footprints and electronic prints everywhere
they go, which computers can automatically flag for eccentric behavior and
closer inspection. Many have opted in for greater data sharing with heartbeat
monitors, step counters and other biometric data tools.
Even those who go to great lengths to pay cash, stay out of debt and off
the radar and in the physical world stand to leave behind traces, and ping in
the system of the Internet of Things (IoT) where all devices become smart
appliances sending 2-way communication.
As Brandon Turbeville writes:
CIA Director David Petraeus made headlines with a speech given at
the summit for In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm. In this talk,
Petraeus discussed the emerging “internet of things” and the implications it
will have for increased levels of surveillance. Petraeus explained
that, because of the rise of gadgets which are connected and controlled by
apps, intelligence agencies will no longer need to place spy devices inside
your home – you will do it for them.
[…] the fact is virtually every piece of electronic equipment
(including appliances) can be controlled via apps and Internet-based systems.
It is for this reason that Petraeus stated that the CIA will be able to read
these devices via the Internet and even radio waves outside of the home.
Petraeus further stated:
‘Transformational’ is an overused word, but I do believe it properly
applies to these technologies.
Particularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft. Items
of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled
through technologies such as radio-frequency identification,
sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters – all connected
to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power
computing.
It seems that only Phillip K. Dick could foresee how far this system is
going.
Still have nothing to hide?
‘We Live In Public’
If you want to know what it is like to live in a world where all your
intimate data is shared, then check out the documentary “We Live in Public,”
about the rise and fall of an Internet entrepreneur who went Truman Show
and put everything on the web, including an experimentally surveillance
society housed in an underground bunker.
His intent was to reveal how we are all going to live in the near future,
where this technology is taking us.
“One day we’re all going to wake up and realize that we’re just
servants. It’s captured us.”
“We built a bunker and showed people the future”
Read more:
Clamp Down on Cash Is the Ultimate Surveillance State:
“Citizens Shouldn’t Be Under General Suspicion”
Banning Cash “Necessary to Give Central Banks More Power”
Creepy Tracking Tech Gone Too Far: “Police Surveillance Now
Fully Automated and Integrated Into Wireless Networks”
NSA-Proof Wallpaper: New Anti-Surveillance Technology Can
Also Shield Electronics Against EMP Attacks
