What's really creepy is they're giving private companies access.<p>From <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/3000272/nypd-microsoft-launch-all-seeing-domain-awareness-system-real-time-cctv-license-plate-monito" rel="nofollow">http://www.fastcompany.com/3000272/nypd-microsoft-launch-all...</a><p><i>The DAS system is headquartered in a lower Manhattan office tower in a command-and-control center staffed around the clock by both New York police and "private stakeholders." When this reporter visited, seats were clearly designated with signs for organizations such as the Federal Reserve, the Bank of New York, Goldman Sachs, Pfizer, and CitiGroup.
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this is the same NYPD arresting credentialed photographers for taking pictures of police in the line of duty. <a href="http://gothamist.com/2012/08/06/nypd_arrest_photographer_on_assignm.php" rel="nofollow">http://gothamist.com/2012/08/06/nypd_arrest_photographer_on_...</a><p>we can record you, but you can't record us. double standards.
Poor name choice given the twitch response to DARPA's "Total Information Awareness" (TIA) efforts. [1]<p>[1]<a href="https://epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/doc_analysis.html" rel="nofollow">https://epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/doc_analysis.html</a>