Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/11/09/streets-with-eyes.html
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Knowing what goverment contractors like to charge, 50k gets them, what, 7 cameras between the two agencies?
While I am exaggerating, I kind of feel better knowing the relatively tiny amount of surveillance that can go on for 50k. Even if we are talking off-the-shelf netgear wifi cameras that is only ~500 which would only cover about 17% of Chicago.
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Kinda my first thought too.
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Eloquent, clear and knowledgeable.
She is a pleasure to listen to.
I think if we make Machiavelli’s writings into an attractive and simple to grasp comic, the nation would be better off.
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Came to say the same thing, except I don’t think you’re exaggerating.
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If the “procurement data” is complete, which is unlikely. 
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Two words: spray varnish. You blur the heck out of the image the camera sees, while barely reducing the brilliance of the streetlight.
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Some kind of spray Vaseline? Make everything look soft and nonthreatening so that the watchers will calm down.
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Normally I’d agree, but the varnish is much harder to remove.
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It makes sense, whenever I nearly get busted by the cops and I throw my cocaine out into a dark field as soon as they let me go for lack of evidence I go look for it under the nearest streetlight because I can’t see anything where I threw it.
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When I read once as a kid that the entire Atlantic was basically wired for sound (for submarines, I guess) I wondered how many people lost at sea get noticed and ignored rather than helped.
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Great, I’m glad we’ve crossed lines of privacy specifically for the two most useless law enforcement agencies.
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Also the two most racially-targeted agencies.
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At first I assumed this was Scarfolk. Sadly, it isn’t.
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Softcore surveillance.
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criminals will continue to avoid well lit places
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Speaking of Orwell, some historical trivia:
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