A Driver’s License as a Convenience for Whom?
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in January 2022 as an NMA Weekly Newsletter #677. If you would like to receive the one-topic newsletter from the National Motorists Association, subscribe today. If you drive, you likely have a physical license indicating you passed a test and can legally drive on the nation’s roadways. After the […]
A Driver’s License as a Convenience for Whom?: NMA E-Newsletter #677
If you drive, you likely have a physical license indicating you passed a test and can legally drive on the nation’s roadways. After the September 11th attack 20 years ago, driver’s licenses became a primary form of identification if you wanted to fly domestically. Now, a driver’s license is once again being asked to do […]
Big Brother now turns CCTV Cams into One Giant Network
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director and Joe Cadillic, MassPrivetal Blog Joe recently wrote a blog on India’s vast CCTV network called Anveshak (Hindi word for investigator). He says that researchers at the Indian Institute of Science have figured out how to use this vast big brother net to target a specific vehicle or person. […]
Open Letter to the Boston City Council: Privacy Concerns about Boston’s Facial Recognition Ban
By Joe Cadillic, writer/editor of the MassPrivatel Blog and Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director The first part of today’s NMA Street Surveillance Watch Blog first appeared on Joe’s MassPrivatel Blog on July 14, 12020. Open letter to the Boston City Council: Privacy Concerns about Boston’s Facial Recognition Ban. I commend the Boston City Council for […]
Has the Aerial Surveillance of America now become a Thing?
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director and Joe Cadillic, MassPrivatel Blog Even before the recent protests against police brutality, local police and other governmental agencies were using airplanes to surveil streets. In the summer of 2016, the city of Baltimore secretly used airplanes to surveil its citizens. Let me restate that, the city actually didn’t […]
ATE Racket Report for November 11, 2019
Curated by Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director The ATE Racket Report is a weekly feature of the NMA blog. We want to bring the issues of automated traffic enforcement to our supporters in a more coherent up-to-date fashion. We love to hear from you about the report. Please feel free to comment below the […]
ATE Racket Report for November 4, 2019
Curated by Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director The ATE Racket Report is a weekly feature of the NMA blog. We want to bring the issues of automated traffic enforcement to our supporters in a more coherent up-to-date fashion. We love to hear from you about the report. Please feel free to comment below the […]
How Drone Technology is Changing Farming, Surveying, Police Work and Search and Rescue Missions
Drone technology is synonymous with two things: war and photography. Yes, the word “drone” came into mainstream use after the US military started weaponizing their large military units. With the advent of multirotor camera drones, the most common real-world use most people see drones used for is as a flying camera. Most recently, delivery services […]
Next Generation Police Tools: NMA E-Newsletter #462
Traffic enforcement continues to go high tech beyond just the newest drone technology. Here are three recent examples of how police are using federal and state funding – some from assets seized from citizenry – to patrol motorists. Police Body Cameras In late October, results from a large study on police body cameras was released […]