PCLOB asked for public comments on its proposed mid- and long-term agenda, which includes an examination of the “functional standards” used for Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR),” a program coordinated through fusion centers. And DHS Urban Area Security Initiative money funds events like Urban Shield, a 4 day long event that featured “preparedness” exercises as well as a marketplace of military and surveillance technology.Īnother possible avenue for review is the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB). DHS’s Homeland Security Grant Program directly funds fusion centers.Ī DHS grant announcement emphasized that funding fusion centers and integrating them nationally is a high priority.

The same money that funds MRAPs and night vision goggles also funds intelligence gathering at the local level. Hassanat concedes that it will be many years yet before visual speech recognition software is able to interpret speech with significantly greater accuracy than at present.ĭHS/police are using surveillance cameras & Stingray surveillance systems to spy on Americans everywhere:Ĭongress and the White House need to include surveillance technologies in their inquiries. How might politicians, business leaders and popular figures fair under that kind of future analysis?” “For example, it may be that videos of conversations without sound are impossible to interpret now but may be easy to interpret in future.

However, the idea of using lip-reading technology in surveillance “raises a whole set of privacy-related issues”, Technology Review suggests.

Automated lip reading software