1984

ABC:U.S. Develops Urban Surveillance System
U.S. Develops System to Track Vehicles in Foreign Cities; Project Raises Privacy Concerns at Home

The Pentagon is developing an urban surveillance system that would use computers and thousands of cameras to track, record and analyze the movement of every vehicle in a foreign city.

Dubbed "Combat Zones That See," the project is designed to help the U.S. military protect troops and fight in cities overseas.

Police, scientists and privacy experts say the unclassified technology could easily be adapted to spy on Americans.

The project's centerpiece is groundbreaking computer software that is capable of automatically identifying vehicles by size, color, shape and license tag, or drivers and passengers by face

Its other projects include developing software that scans databases of everyday transactions and personal records worldwide to predict terrorist attacks and creating a computerized diary that would record and analyze everything a person says, sees, hears, reads or touches (Die CIA besitzt schon Heute ein Programm um Weltweit Wertschriftentransaktion in Real-Time zu überwachen. Damit sollen aufällige Transaktionen ausfindig gemacht werden die auf Terroranschläge hindeuten. Scheint allerdings nicht zu funktioieren, die massiv erhöhten Volumen bei Optionen von Rückversicherern und Fluggesellschaften am 10. September 2001 wurden nicht bemerkt oder erregten keine Aufmerksamkeit)