From Info Wars: The Las Vegas Public Works Department has begun testing a newly installed street light system with wide-ranging capabilities including audio and video recording.
According to the Michigan based “Illuminating Concepts,” the system’s main benefits include “energy management, security and entertainment.” The Las Vegas setup surrounding City Hall includes such features as emergency notification flashers, playable music and a sound announcement system, all controlled from an Ipad.
“Actually, there’s a server that’s housed by the company that’s providing this product and we’re communicating with just a wireless, wi-fi connection,” Neil Rohleder of the Public Works Department told My News 3.
The company’s lights, which also offer a “Homeland Security” feature, received major backlash in 2011 following reports of the system’s federally-funded roll out across the country. The feature allows for emergency government announcements which will likely include such slogans as “See Something, Say Something” as well as other irrationally fear-based messages already seen in Wal Mart’s DHS-run “telescreens.”
Local privacy advocate Daphne Lee has begun speaking out against the system, pointing to the ever-increasing surveillance dragnet cast over everyday innocent Americans.
“This technology, you know is taking us to a place where, you know, you’ll essentially be monitored from the moment you leave your home till the moment you get home,” said Lee.
The Public Works Department claims they have no plans to use the system’s surveillance cameras… for now, leading many to believe the plan is already well underway as city-wide implementation is discussed.
“Right now our intention is not to have any cameras or recording devices…it’s just to provide output out there, not to get any feed or video feed coming back,” said Public Works Director, Jorge Servantes. http://www.infowars.com/las-vegas-installs-intellistreets-light-fixtures-capable-of-recording-conversations/
The cops put up cameras in the area around Fremont St and that hasn't stopped crime there or the criminals move to another area to commit crimes.
I guess we now have NSA wannabes in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas is a Democrat town, why would Democrats want to continue to violate our privacy?
Make Again
2 hours ago
Those streetlights belong and are managed by the City of Las Vegas, not LVMPD. To assert that it is the police is irresponsible.
ReplyDeleteOh, right and if the cops need information that can be gathered from the lights, the City would refuse to give it to them?
ReplyDeleteFurther, why do they need these in the first place, especially the microphones?
And I never said and neither did the article, say the cops ran them.