2018: The year public watchlists became commonplace
MassPrivatei.blogspot.com
DEC 26 2018
A few months ago I called 2018 the “Rise of Spying Transit Police” but after looking through my archives, I noticed a more disturbing pattern emerge. Time and again, month after month, most of the stories I wrote revolved around one thing, watchlists.
In January, I wrote two stories about facial recognition and police camshares that centered around corporate and law enforcement watchlists. From then on things got progressively worse, watchlists, blacklists and whitelists are expanding at a frightening pace.
Below is a list of twenty-seven stories that show how public watchlists have become commonplace.
January:
1.) Fast food restaurants to use facial recognition to spy on customers
2.) Businesses forced to pay the police to let them spy on customers
February:
3.) AnyVision’s facial recognition cameras are being installed in ‘smart cities’ everywhere
March:
4.) Rental cars to use facial recognition to spy on your vacation
5.) Police are creating a national surveillance network using COMTEC, Project Green Light etc.
6.) NFL, NBA and the NHL use TSA Precheck to spy on fans
7.) Police facial recognition smartphones will be used to create secret watchlists
8.) MLB teams use TSA Precheck to spy on fans
The Rest…HERE
