Privacy No More? TrapWire's all-seeing eye tracks your every move

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Recent reports published by WikiLeaks have revealed that the US government is using highly advanced spyware to watch its own citizens. The system, called TrapWire, allegedly accesses all surveillance cameras nationwide and sends collected data to a main database, where the images are stored. RT's Marina Portnaya reveals more about the mysterious software.

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1. Welcome to "Minority Report".

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2. I'm dense

Please explain?

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3. The movie - Tom Cruise - everything was under surveilance.

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4. Oh, Tom Cruise movies

I see them on Netflix sometimes, but I never pick them. Hmmmm.

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5. Minority Report was really good - as was Risky Business. I think he was in some others, not sure.

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9. I confess I start to watch start thinking about all his scientology antics

the speech where he wore the Zoltar costume from Planet Tomzonian...half the film is over by the time I start paying attention again.

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6. I dunno, I've always been conflicted on these sort of things.

On one hand, it's a public location, so you can't have the expectation of constant privacy that you would, and should expect in your own home.

On the other hand, if these like these aren't effective (as the guy said), there isn't much point in having them.

I think these kind of cameras may be more useful for stopping or deterring crimes like murder or theft, rather than terrorism. I'm not really against video cameras in cities though, in principal.

But as in Minority Report, I could imagine corporations one day using constant surveillance to study buying habits -- something I'd be completely against. So that's my biggest fear, that this sort of intelligence will one day be shared with private enterprises, if it isn't already.

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I guess old Berija - the top leader of NKVD can just sit where he might sit - and envy what the US can do, to spy on its own people.. After all, Berija was a man, who was leader for NKVD, and had paper on most people.. But compared to this - the US agencies can spy on you 24/7 365 days a year - and you would not even know it - and over days, weeks, months and years, the new spy system can monitored and get a rather great control over your movements...

the security apparatus of the meanest, most nasty dictatorships, would just be in envy about the tools the US have to spy on their own this days.. And most americans still believe for a reason or another, they are free...

The Russians at least, know they was being spied on - the americans still have the fantasy that the government doesn't

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8. we need to stage civil disobedience in front of cameras

I tried it today. I spotted a camera and started acting erratically. Purposely. Just as an experiment. Made twinkle fingers. Played peek-a-boo. Stuck my tongue out. I am going to do this from now on. And maybe hold up signs. My new friends...

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Then I guess you wil have a few new friends allready.... Oh wel, as long as you dosen't do anything worse than peek a boo....

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