Elk Grove News Minute Podcast - The Surveillance State Starts at City Hall

The Surveillance State Didn’t Need to Watch You — Now It Can

For two decades, the comforting response to mass surveillance was arithmetic. Yes, the government collects everything, but nobody could possibly look at it all. The haystack was too big. Your ordinary life was protected not by law but by the sheer impossibility of anyone caring enough to sift through it. Artificial intelligence just deleted that...

Review: Axis Q1728-LE Brings Edge AI to State and Local Surveillance

State and local agencies are under increasing pressure to modernize physical security systems that were originally designed around centralized video monitoring and passive recording. Those legacy deployments often struggle to keep up with today’s requirements for real-time threat detection, cybersecurity hardening and efficient data management. At the center of the Axis Q1728-LE is a built-in deep learning processing unit that allows the camera …

Elk Grove News Minute Podcast - The Surveillance State Starts at City Hall

The names Stasi and SAVAK may not be familiar to many Americans, but they were the feared secret police agencies used by the communist East German government and the Shah of Iran, respectively, to crush political dissent and punish those who opposed the regime.Listen Time 2 Minutes 30 Seconds

The Surveillance State Didn't Need to Watch You — Now It Can

For two decades, the comforting response to mass surveillance was arithmetic.