New York City’s Domain Awareness System (DAS), which combines police know-how with computer algorithms, is reportedly making the city money and making it safer, but some worry it is also invading people’s personal privacy. The system combines more than 3,500 publicly placed cameras, license-plate readers “at every major Manhattan entry point,” radiation detectors and real-time 911 alerts with “a trove” of police data, The New York Times reports. The success of the DAS has generated interest from other municipalities, but others worry the invasion of privacy will be “much greater than anything we have seen so far.” In another surveillance story, the Office of Naval Research aims to use autonomous technology to patrol and map the ocean. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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