Technocrat engineers are advancing surveillance technology at breakneck speed. India's latest invention can co-opt thousands of cameras to track individuals or vehicles in real time as they move about. This is ubiquitous, full-time surveillance that could completely destroy privacy.
Fusion is a data processing concept that means normalizing and combining otherwise incompatible data streams into a single stream. DHS Fusion centers, for instance, harvested and transformed state and local data to be compatible with their national database. The same concept works locally.
Total surveillance in Smart Cities has not been curtailed in the slightest as new tech is rolled out to police forces around America. Components like sensors, cameras, license plate readers, CCTV and more are being rolled up into a single surveillance sledgehammer for police, DHS, Fusion Centers, etc.
The "system" of a Constitutional Republic is in battle-unto-death with the "system" of Technocracy and totalitarian Scientific Dictatorship. One will survive and the other will perish. The Republic is currently on the ropes, being relentlessly pounded but the outcome is not yet guaranteed.
The national network of local Fusion Centers was created as a data gathering network to normalize state and local data to Federal databases. Instead of fighting terrorism, they have become a spy network on ordinary citizens.
As America is deconstructed by multiple forces, Technocrats are taking every advantage of a corrupt political establishment to get their way at everyone else's expense. They are the ones lurking just behind the ignorant politicians, pulling all the strings.
DHS implemented a national network of Fusion Centers between 2003 and 2007, that opened government access to hundreds of millions of driver photos without consent or legal authorization.
By its actions and rhetoric, the Federal government has already declared itself to be a champion of ubiquitous surveillance, while the rights of states and cities are trampled. This leaves the only possible resistance at the local level, where cities and counties literally throw out the surveillance mentality. With enough local resistance, Federal initiatives can be thwarted.
AT&T is not an agency of the U.S. government, but it might appear that way as they have created a draconian communications network called FirstNet just to serve police surveillance and AI facial recognition. This has no aim except to further a police state in America.
John Whitehead concludes, "One of the most important contributions an individual citizen can make is to become actively involved in local community affairs, politics and legal battles. As the adage goes, 'Think globally, act locally.'” This is exactly why TN editor recently created Citizens For Free Speech.