African American Odyssey: Abolition, Anti-Slavery Movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy (Part 2) Another Creepy Service From The Trapwire Corporate Family -- NEXTBUS? In case you haven’t heard, a company called TrapWire has been analysing and storing data collected from High Value Targets – stadiums, monuments, power plants, tourist spots – all across America, as well as in Canada, the UK, and the rest of the developed world. TrapWire’s board of directors reads like a who’s who from the intelligence industry. Of the tech, the claim “better than facial recognition” was made in 2005. If this is uncomfortably close to science fiction, then the goals have already crossed over, specifically, into the most popularized scenarios from Minority Report. The TrapWire family of companies is creepier still. And, making my hair stand on end, the local evidence of these shenanigans is straight out of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Specifically, the municipal transportation systems of Santa Mira, where, if the buses and trains do not always run on time, I am pretty sure there’s an app that citizens can download onto their smartphones.
Read more Read more. Eagle Eyes keeps community safe. MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - In the fight against terrorism, it’s important to always remain vigilant. The Eagle Eyes program, launched in 2004, is a hotline for anyone in the military community to report and raise awareness of suspicious activity. Through intelligence gathering, the United Nations learned Al Qaida, an international terrorist organization, usually conducts three to eight surveillance operations before each attack. During at least one of those surveillance operations, an insurgent is physically at the possible location. “They don’t want to fail,” said Jeffrey Strohman, the mission assurance training program manager.
“(The terrorists) know having someone physically survey a location is the weakest point of the whole preplanning operation because they could get caught. Disseminating the hotline information throughout the military community is the goal of the program, Strohman added. “I’ve noticed the Eagle Eyes information all around the base,” said Staff Sgt. View Opportunity. Fusion Centers Map, Locations, Contact Information. What's Wrong With Fusion Centers - Executive Summary. December 5, 2007 A new institution is emerging in American life: Fusion Centers. These state, local and regional institutions were originally created to improve the sharing of anti-terrorism intelligence among different state, local and federal law enforcement agencies. Though they developed independently and remain quite different from one another, for many the scope of their mission has quickly expanded - with the support and encouragement of the federal government - to cover "all crimes and all hazards.
" The types of information they seek for analysis has also broadened over time to include not just criminal intelligence, but public and private sector data, and participation in these centers has grown to include not just law enforcement, but other government entities, the military and even select members of the private sector. Make a Difference Your support helps the ACLU defend privacy rights and a broad range of civil liberties. Give Now Ambiguous Lines of Authority. Map - Your Local Fusion Center | Are We Safer? | FRONTLINE. Fusion centers -- places for state, local and federal officials to share and analyze information -- sprang up at the local level in the wake of the post-9/11 complaints about the failure to "connect the dots. " In 2003, the federal government began contributing funding; to date, the Department of Homeland Security has provided more than $420 million in funding to 72 fusion centers across the country, but some localities have funded additional centers.
Fusion centers are built upon the idea of cops on a beat -- local authorities will recognize potential threats to their communities and feed the system with intelligence about possible terrorists. But critics charge that the imperative to gather as much information as possible can lead to abuses and misinformation that can get into national databases. Here is a map of state-level fusion centers, click on a point to learn more. Map Data Map data ©2014 Google, INEGI Map Sources The Washington Post, ACLU. Fusion Centers Are Designed to Spy on the American People.