San Diego: Spy City

CHAMELEO readers will have no trouble recognizing the significance of the following 3-14-19 MASSPRIVATEL article entitled "San Diego Has Been Turned Into a Massive Chinese-Style Public Surveillance Network (Updated)":

"Can you imagine a city in the United States secretly creating a Chinese-style public surveillance network that can identify everyone? Can you imagine that same city secretly creating a Chinese-style public watchlisting network?

"Well imagine no more because it has already happened.

"When I wrote about 'covert facial recognition street lights coming to a city near you' last year, I never would have dreamt that my article would become a reality so quickly.

"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. (Click here to view a map of where all 3,200 spying street lights are located.)

"Last year, BriefCam announced a 'breakthrough' in real-time facial recognition surveillance.

"'Robust multi-camera search capabilities identify men, women, children and vehicles with speed and precision, using 25 classes and attributes, face recognition, appearance similarity, color, size, speed, path, direction, and dwell time.'

"According to another article, the City of San Diego is using GE's CityIQ street lights 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.
 
"'Devices capable of monitoring and recording residents invade privacy, chill free speech, and disparately impact communities of color.'

"But as the article revealed, San Diego ignored the public's concerns and secretly installed 3200 spying GE streetlights.

"GE's spying streetlights have effectively 'turned the city into a stealthy laboratory for infrastructure-embedded intelligence collecting with devices regularly used by the DEA, ICE and other security agencies.' (To learn more about San Diego's spying streetlights click here.)"

To read the entire article, click HERE.