A recent article in the San Diego Reader reveals how a hacker discovered emails between the Port of San Diego and BriefCam. The emails revealed that law enforcement is secretly using a network of 400 facial recognition surveillance cameras to identify everyone. Last year, BriefCam announced a “breakthrough” in real-time facial recognition surveillance. According to another article, the City of San Diego is using GE’s CityIQ streetlights to listen to everyone. In 2017, civil rights advocates sent a letter to the mayor and city council asking the city not to install GE’s streetlights. But as the article revealed, San Diego ignored the public’s concerns and secretly installed 3200 spying GE streetlights. San Diego’s law enforcement is using Briefcam to create “precise face recognition [that] rapidly pinpoints people of interest in real-time using digital images extracted from video, external image sources and pre-defined watchlists.” As Vanity Fair warned: the real purpose behind turning our cities into a mirror image of China is to “make people more obedient” and that is surveillance politics in a nutshell.
— source blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com | Mar 21, 2019