Notes Surveillance

NOTES SURVEILLANCE
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In Spain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, Orwell had witnessed the danger of absolute political authority in an age of advanced technology. Orwell’s vision of a post-atomic dictatorship in which every individual would be monitored ceaselessly by means of the telescreen seemed terrifyingly possible. That Orwell postulated such a society a mere thirty-five years into the future compounded this fear.

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Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors. It differs from broadcast television in that the signal is not openly transmitted, though it may employ point to point (P2P), point to multipoint, or mesh wireless links.

A geographic information system (GIS) is a computer system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of spatial or geographical data.

Location Based Services (LBS), ook wel locatiegebaseerde diensten genoemd, zijn applicaties die beschikbaar zijn op mobiele toestellen dankzij het mobiele netwerk en gebruikmaken van de aardrijkskundige locatie van het toestel. Er zijn bij LBS verschillende soorten applicaties, zoals applicaties voor nooddiensten, amusement, evenementen enz. Deze LBS-applicaties kunnen bijvoorbeeld de dichtstbijzijnde restaurants zoeken, plaatsgebonden reclame weergeven op het mobiele toestel of voor stadsspellen.

Global positioning system (gps) is de commerciële naam voor een wereldwijd satellietplaatsbepalingssysteem dat vanaf 1967 werd ontwikkeld voor gebruik door de strijdkrachten van de Verenigde Staten.

A two-way radio is a radio that can both transmit and receive (a transceiver), unlike a broadcast receiver which only receives content. A two-way radio (transceiver) allows the operator to have a conversation with other similar radios operating on the same radio frequency (channel).

Radio frequency identification (identificatie met radiogolven, RFID), is een technologie om van een afstand informatie op te slaan in en af te lezen van zogenaamde RFID-tags die op of in objecten of levende wezens zitten.

A geo-fence is a virtual perimeter for a real-world geographic area.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

Oligopticon is a generic term, used by Bruno Latour who uses this term in order to trace social connections. Oligoptica "do exactly the opposite of panoptica: they see much too little to feed the megalomania of the inspector or themparanoia of the inspected, but what they see, they see it well."

PANOPTICON; OR THE INSPECTION-HOUSE: CONTAINING THE IDEA OF A NEW PRINCIPLE OF CONSTRUCTION APPLICABLE TO ANY SORT OF ESTABLISHMENT, IN WHICH PERSONS OF ANY DESCRIPTION ARE TO BE KEPT UNDER INSPECTION; AND IN PARTICULAR TO PENITENTIARY-HOUSES, PRISONS, HOUSES OF INDUSTRY, WORK-HOUSES, POOR-HOUSES, LAZARETTOS, MANUFACTORIES, HOSPITALS, MAD-HOUSES, AND SCHOOLS: WITH A PLAN OF MANAGEMENT ADAPTED TO THE PRINCIPLE: IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1787, FROM CRECHEFF IN WHITE RUSSIA. TO A FRIEND IN ENGLAND BY JEREMY BENTHAM, OF LINCOLN'S INN, ESQUIRE.

The mark of the beast is a combination of letters and symbols that will be physically and permanently placed on your forehead or right hand. Most people will consider it an honor to receive the mark. It will be like a key for them that will open doors of acceptance, prosperity and peace.

The mark of the beast will be placed on people who worship the beast and choose to receive his mark. There will be severe penalties for refusing the mark and great rewards for getting it.

The mark of the beast will be enforced. The people who believe in the beast and worship him will be glad to get his mark. The beast is not a person or a human organization. The beast is Satan himself. But when Satan comes as the beast he will appear in a glorious body. People will not recognize him as the Devil. He will claim to be God and most people will believe that he is God. The mark of the beast is an outward, physical symbol, showing that the wearer has chosen to worship the beast and receive him as God.

The VeriChip is a small radio frequency identification device. It has an identification number and it is the size of a grain of rice. The VeriChip is implanted in the human body. It is currently used in some countries for medical information. Currently the VeriChip is not the mark of the beast. But at some point in the future it could be part of the physical mark that is put on a person's forehead or right hand.

A ‘geomander’ is some sort of 3-dimensional model which shows the development of a system.