Thursday, April 24, 2008

Lower Manhattan surveillance - from Wired Security

Check out this article about security and surveillance in the financial district of manhattan from Wired Security.

"But the financial district is a special case, and in June 2006 the NYPD announced a three-year, $106 million plan called the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative. Its centerpiece is an array of 3,000 cameras that will turn the area into a 1.7-square-mile, open-air Panopticon."

"New York's cameras will do more than identify terrorists after they've struck. The new cameras will be fully networked, with video-intelligence algorithms that aim to spot potential attackers before they perpetrate their crimes."



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