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How you're being tracked
Ottawa Citizen
Video Surveillance: Use of closed circuit television cameras has exploded worldwide since 9/11. Digitization means images can be readily stored and scanned and matched to images of suspects, using facial recognition technology.
RFIDs: Microchip tags that communicate data — typically a unique identifier code — to a reader using radio transmission. Can be embedded in consumer products, enhanced driver's licences, even human beings. Also used for employee entry and workplace monitoring.
Computer databases: Store and analyse large amounts of personal data about citizens from both private and public sources. Can include geographic, demographic and psychographic data, as well as information on consumer behaviour.
The Internet: Websites and search engines automatically track online behaviour and scoop up information provided by users who make purchases, answer surveys, enter contests or post on social networks such as Facebook. Deep Packet Inspection technology could allow Internet service providers to sort through everything a user does online, including keyword searches of e-mail.
Loyalty cards: Record retail transactions, allowing issuers to develop detailed profiles of our spending habits for marketing.
Geographical Information Systems: Track the movements of people using RFID chips, global positioning systems (GPS), smart ID cards, transponders or signals given off by cellphones or laptop computers.
Automatic licence plate recognition: Technology that uses CCTV to read licence plates on vehicles travelling at up to 160 kilometres an hour. Widely used in the U.K.
Event data recorders: Record such things as speed, acceleration, steering-wheel angle, braking and seatbelt use at the time of a crash. Data has been used in court to secure convictions for dangerous driving. Some are part of sophisticated systems like GM's OnStar service, which includes two-way microphones and speakers, meaning it could potentially be used to eavesdrop on conversations.
Echelon system: Global surveillance network operated by security services in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.K. that automatically intercepts and analyses millions of e-mails, phone calls, faxes and telexes carried by satellite. Uses sophisticated algorithms for key-word, speech and meaning recognition.
Body imagers: Currently being tested at the airport in Kelowna, B.C., these passenger scanners create a detailed 3-D holographic image of what a person looks like underneath their clothes. So far, submitting to the scanners is voluntary.
Brain surveillance: New functional magnetic resonance imaging technology can "read" brain waves to determine if we're lying. Has already been used to obtain convictions in criminal cases in India.
http://www.canada.com/sports/2010wintergames/story.html?id=1252364
see how many there are that you are on
How you're being tracked
Ottawa Citizen
Video Surveillance: Use of closed circuit television cameras has exploded worldwide since 9/11. Digitization means images can be readily stored and scanned and matched to images of suspects, using facial recognition technology.
RFIDs: Microchip tags that communicate data — typically a unique identifier code — to a reader using radio transmission. Can be embedded in consumer products, enhanced driver's licences, even human beings. Also used for employee entry and workplace monitoring.
Computer databases: Store and analyse large amounts of personal data about citizens from both private and public sources. Can include geographic, demographic and psychographic data, as well as information on consumer behaviour.
The Internet: Websites and search engines automatically track online behaviour and scoop up information provided by users who make purchases, answer surveys, enter contests or post on social networks such as Facebook. Deep Packet Inspection technology could allow Internet service providers to sort through everything a user does online, including keyword searches of e-mail.
Loyalty cards: Record retail transactions, allowing issuers to develop detailed profiles of our spending habits for marketing.
Geographical Information Systems: Track the movements of people using RFID chips, global positioning systems (GPS), smart ID cards, transponders or signals given off by cellphones or laptop computers.
Automatic licence plate recognition: Technology that uses CCTV to read licence plates on vehicles travelling at up to 160 kilometres an hour. Widely used in the U.K.
Event data recorders: Record such things as speed, acceleration, steering-wheel angle, braking and seatbelt use at the time of a crash. Data has been used in court to secure convictions for dangerous driving. Some are part of sophisticated systems like GM's OnStar service, which includes two-way microphones and speakers, meaning it could potentially be used to eavesdrop on conversations.
Echelon system: Global surveillance network operated by security services in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.K. that automatically intercepts and analyses millions of e-mails, phone calls, faxes and telexes carried by satellite. Uses sophisticated algorithms for key-word, speech and meaning recognition.
Body imagers: Currently being tested at the airport in Kelowna, B.C., these passenger scanners create a detailed 3-D holographic image of what a person looks like underneath their clothes. So far, submitting to the scanners is voluntary.
Brain surveillance: New functional magnetic resonance imaging technology can "read" brain waves to determine if we're lying. Has already been used to obtain convictions in criminal cases in India.
http://www.canada.com/sports/2010wintergames/story.html?id=1252364
