Surveillance

Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, activities, or other information-related accesses/changes. Human Surveillance is usually conducted upon a particular group of people for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting them. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment (such as CCTV cameras), or interception of electronically transmitted information (such as Internet traffic or phone calls); and it can include simple, relatively no- or low-technology methods such as human intelligence agents eavesdropping and/or postal interception of the mail. The word surveillance comes from a French phrase for "watching over" ("sur" means "from above" and "veiller" means "to watch"), and is in contrast to more recent developments such as sousveillance (which means "recording an activity by a participant in the activity typically by way of small wearable or portable personal technologies").

Surveillance is used by governments for intelligence gathering, the prevention of crime, the protection of a process, person, group or object, or for the investigation of crime. It is also used by criminal organizations to plan and commit crimes such as robbery and kidnapping, by businesses to gather intelligence, and by private investigators.

Surveillance is often a violation of privacy, and is opposed by various civil liberties groups and activists. Liberal democracies have laws which restrict domestic government and private use of surveillance, usually limiting it to circumstances where public safety is at risk. Authoritarian government seldom have any domestic restrictions; and international espionage is common among all types of countries.

21st Century Surveillance

Justification

The nature of society and ever changing security management challenges have forced organizations to explore the need for more sophisticated video surveillance systems. As technology has progressed network digital video has become an extremely cost effective management control tool for sites at any location and to operations of almost any size.

How to Find

• Google search for a specific webcam type/model's page signature (a unique piece of text, code or URL fragment appearing by default when publishing the webcam):

inurl:"ViewerFrame?Mode=refresh" 

Security Cameras

Security Cameras are privately-owned surveillance tools which record and/or broadcast a video feed of a particular area or set of areas or regions (i.e. mobile/adjustable/multi-lense cameras), and are one of the primary means of physical premise/property surveillance.

• Webcampedia - The Internet's Webcam Encyclopedia: http://www.webcampedia.com/
• EarthCam: http://www.earthcam.com/ (featuring an HD Statue of Liberty cam and NYC panorama)

Government

Canada

NB

• Department of Transportation: http://www.gnb.ca/0113/cameras/ | NB roads (map/info): http://www.the506.com/roads/NB/

Newfoundland

• Newfoundland - Major Driving Routes and Live Highway Cameras: http://www.roads.gov.nl.ca/cameras/

Japan

Tokyo

• ASAHI Brewing company Headquarters (aka The Golden Turd) in Asakusa, Tokyo: http://125.206.34.118/cgi-bin/ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion&Language=0

Personal

• ANNESTREAMS: http://annemarjaana.camstreams.com/

Camera Models

Axis

/view/view.shtml axis

"adding live video to one of your own pages a very easy task with an AXIS 2100 Network Camera"

"Live view - / - AXIS"
 
 "Your browser has JavaScript turned off.For the user interface to work effectively"
 
 indexFrame.html axis
 
 "Live web imaging unleashed"

Canon

sample/LvAppl/

MOBOTIX

/control/userimage.html

JVC

"(c)copyright 1999-2003 VICTOR COMPANY OF JAPAN, LIMITED. All rights reserved"

FlexWatch

/app/idxas.html 

Saving & Retrieving Mode

Panasonic

/ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion

Toshiba

TOSHIBA Network Camera - User Login

SONY

/home/homeJ.html

WebCam XP

my webcamXP server!

Tools

• The Surveillance Catalog - Where governments get their snooping tools: http://projects.wsj.com/surveillance-catalog/#/
• ZoneMinder - Video Surveillance suite for Linux: http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Hardware_Compatibility_List
• gPhoto2 - Remote Controlling Camera suite for Unix: http://www.gphoto.org/doc/remote/

Resources

• Slooh: http://events.slooh.com/ (provides occasional free/live access or membership-based access every day to sattelites and observatory telescope feeds)

Tutorials

• How to Turn Your Webcam Into a Streaming, Motion-Detecting Surveillance System: http://lifehacker.com/5860538/how-to-turn-your-webcam-into-a-streaming-motion+detecting-surveillance-system

External Links

• wikipedia: Surveillance
• wikipedia: Sousveillance
• wikipedia: Telepresence
• wikipedia: Power over Ethernet
• wikipedia: CCTV camera
• wikipedia: IP camera
• Security Cameras (for sale): http://www.2mcctv.com/index-SecurityCameras.html
• How to View Live Webcams and Security Camera Footage with Google: http://www.digitalalchemy.tv/2006/11/how-to-view-live-webcams-and-security.html
• How To View Security Cameras On Google - There's securite cam viewavle through google: http://www.trap17.com/index.php/how-view-security-cameras-google_t36817.html
• Post PicMythbusters: Hi-Def speaker for under a buck!: http://householdhacker.com/2009/04/21/mythbusters-hi-def-speaker-for-under-a-buck/
• Big Brother Britain -- £380 a MINUTE spent on tracking your every click online: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1221839/State-spying-cost-200m-year-track-online-move.html#ixzz0UnOuNanN
• US doles out millions for street cameras: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/08/12/us_doles_out_millions_for_street_cameras/
• Surveillance Society -- New High-Tech Cameras Are Watching You: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4236865.html
• Report -- U.S. Surveillance Society Running Rampant: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/01/us-surveillance/
• Cities opening more video surveillance eyes: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-07-17-cameras-cities_x.htm
• More Cities Deploy Camera Surveillance Systems with Federal Grant Money: http://epic.org/privacy/surveillance/spotlight/0505.html
• Japan Tightening Electronic Surveillance of Foreigners: http://www.infowars.com/japan-tightening-electronic-surveillance-of-foreigners/
• Abuses of surveillance cameras: http://www.notbored.org/camera-abuses.html
• Airports Set To Become Primary Peddlers Of Child Porn: http://www.infowars.com/airports-set-to-become-primary-peddlers-of-child-porn/
• A Call For Mass Resistance To Implementation Of Body Scanners : http://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-calls-for-mass-resistance-to-implementation-of-body-scanners/
• Compro Launches World’s First Day/Night HD IP Camera with True IR Lighting: http://www.testfreaks.com/blog/press-releases/compro-launches-worlds-first-daynight-hd-ip-camera-with-true-ir-lighting/
• HowStuffWorks -- Is your workplace tracking your computer activities?: http://www.howstuffworks.com/workplace-surveillance.htm
• Online surveillance bill ‘will put an electronic prisoner’s bracelet on every Canadian’: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/14/online-surveillance-bill-will-put-electronic-prisoners-bracelet-on-every-canadian/
• Surveillance fears for the UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8029349.stm
• Warning over 'surveillance state': http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7872425.stm
• IATA unveils new airport security check featuring iris scans, information chips in passports: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/iata-unveils-airport-security-check-featuring-iris-scans-063812957.html
• Total surveillance - SMART grid, SMART homes, SMART healthcare and a camera on every corner: http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/total-surveillance-smart-grid-smart-homes-smart-healthcare-and-a-camera-on-every-corner/
• The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say): http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1
• THE CIA AND THE MEDIA: http://carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php
• The CIA wants to spy on you through your TV: Agency director says it will 'transform' surveillanceRead more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2115871/The-CIA-wants-spy-TV-Agency-director-says-net-connected-gadgets-transform-surveillance.html
• Homeland Security Manual Lists Government Key Words For Monitoring Social Media, News: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/24/homeland-security-manual_n_1299908.html
• The Age Of Drones - Military May Be Using Drones In US To Help Police: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/06/04/the-age-of-drones-military-may-be-using-drones-in-us-to-help-police/
• Big Brother Australia Looking to Monitor Full Spectrum Communications: http://www.activistpost.com/2012/07/big-brother-australia-looking-to.html
• It's official - NSA spying is hurting the US tech economy: http://www.zdnet.com/article/another-reason-to-hate-the-nsa-china-is-backing-away-from-us-tech-brands/
• U.S. flies most advanced surveillance plane from Philippines: http://news.yahoo.com/u-flies-most-advanced-surveillance-plane-philippines-131316326.html
• New Automated Camera + Radar system looks to nab speed offenders anywhere in Tokyo, bill/court-summons later, depending on speed: http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/new-radar-system-looks-to-nab-speed-offenders-anywhere-in-tokyo
• Spy agencies target mobile phones, app stores to implant spyware: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/spy-agencies-target-mobile-phones-app-stores-to-implant-spyware-1.3076546
• The NSA may not be listening to your private phone calls, but it has been watching your private parts: http://www.zdnet.com/big-brother-really-is-watching-you-7000026716/
• The edge of the abyss - exposing the NSA's all-seeing machine: http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/12/5082666/the-edge-of-the-abyss-exposing-the-nsas-all-seeing-machine
• Oliver Stone -- Pokemon Go is a New Stage in “Totalitarism” and “Surveillance Capitalism”: http://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/oliver-stone-pokemon-go-new-stage-totalitarism-surveillance-capitalism/
• How the Spies Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Fitbit: https://medium.com/foreign-policy/how-the-spies-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-fitbit-e318c5b70318
• Facebook patents system that can use your phone's mic to monitor TV habits: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/28/facebook-patent-phone-mic-listening-tv-shows
• RING AND AMAZON SUED OVER HACKING: https://www.tmz.com/2019/12/27/ring-amazon-sued-over-hacking/
• How schools are using kids' phones to track and surveil them: https://www.cnet.com/news/how-schools-are-using-kids-phones-to-track-and-surveil-them/
• Why schools need to abandon facial recognition, not double down on it: https://www.fastcompany.com/90657769/schools-facial-recognition
• What is Pegasus? How Surveillance Spyware Invades Phones: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-pegasus-how-surveillance-spyware-invades-phones/
• Apple's Planned iPhone Scans Pave Way For Worldwide Censorship, Groups Warn: https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/366130/apples-planned-iphone-scans-pave-way-for-worldwid.htmljzJ5pULuSqY
• Italy could become the first EU nation with a social credit score: https://thecountersignal.com/italy-could-be-first-eu-nation-with-social-credit-score/
• Inspired by prehistoric creatures, researchers make record-setting "tiny lenses": https://phys.org/news/2022-04-prehistoric-creatures-record-setting-lenses.html
• Experts warn ArriveCAN app could be violating constitutionally protected rights: https://globalnews.ca/news/9047177/experts-warn-arrivecan-app-could-be-violating-constitutionally-protected-rights/

See Also

Video | RFID | Biometrics | Image Recognition | Voice Recognition | Speech Recognition | Government | E-Government | Behavioral Targeting