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Police in California Using New Surveillance Tools to Determine Your Threat Score

2-7-2017 < Blacklisted News 62 113 words
 

Police in California are using state of the art surveillance tools to determine an individual’s “threat score” based on social media posts and other public records. According to the Washington Post, the software is being used by the Fresno police department at a $600,000 surveillance center in the San Joaquin Valley, and can analyze billions of data points in a matter of seconds. Fresno’s Real Time Crime Center hold dozens of television monitors that stream feeds from over 1,000 police, school and traffic cameras across town. The apparatus is linked to a database containing details of more than 2 billion license plates, and a network of microphones utilized to detect and locate gunshots.

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