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July 01, 2003

Trust Us, We're The Government - Part 210

From Redneckin comes this charming tale of government research:

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is developing an urban surveillance system that would use computers and thousands of cameras to track, record and analyze the movement of every vehicle in a foreign city.

Dubbed "Combat Zones That See," the project is designed to help the U.S. military protect troops and fight in cities overseas.

Police, scientists and privacy experts say the unclassified technology could easily be adapted to spy on Americans.

Let's see, we gave Ashcroft expanded powers to fight the war on terror, and he's admitted to using them for non-terrorism investigations...somehow, my faith in our government not to abuse any new technology is very weak.