Big Brother Surveillance Only Used for Corporate Marketing, Says ExpertSusanne Posel, Contributor These cameras were installed in 207 schools in England, Scotland and Wales. While the reasoning for this development is explained as necessary to divert crime, there is no significant research proving that CCTV cameras lower crime rates. Public surveillance in the US has turned toward drones for domestic policing.Local law enforcement is pushing for the authority to use drones under the guise of conducting search and rescue operations, mapping traffic accidents and otherwise general surveillance activities. Government agencies and police departments are in line to receive licenses to use these aerial craft regardless of the infringement on Americans privacy. The suspicion that this is an excuse to get predator drones into American skies is being explained away. The fact that this would be a military operationand not a police endeavor is not being clarified. Earlier this month, the Congressional Research Service released a reportstating: The police are given back doors into social networking sites to spy on users for the sake of searching for terrorists or criminal activity. All the information shared on the Internet is not protectedunder the Constitution, according to the US court system which allows governments tosiphonthis data from Internet providers in an intuitive referred to as deep packet inspection technology. Recently, Apple was granted a patent that enables corporations to wirelessly disable the camera function on specific iPhones in determining locations. The supposition is that this technology could be used to prevent protesters from recording events at political protests or public gatherings. The US Patent No. 8254902can give the apparatus and methods of enforcement of policies upon a wireless device can be turned off without customer participation. As a failsafe to keep this possibility from being taken advantage of, the mobile phone would have to be within a designated sensitive area; however police departments do not have to divulge where those areas are. According to Twitters Transparency Report,the US government has made requests that are infringing on American privacy rights. Twitter states that weve received more government requests in the first half of 2012, as outlined in this initial dataset, than in the entirety of 2011. Cloud computing is also under surveillance as every conversation is recorded and filed. While Microsoft denies this is true, the adherence to their rules and regulations explains that all yourpersonal informationis stored within Skype. In section 2 of their user contract explains: In New York, thanks to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Microsoft, the Domain Awareness System is one of the best pre-crime surveillancesystems and it is being beta-tested on the citizens of New York. The Federal Bureau of Investigations just spent $1 billion to develop the Next Generation Identification System(NGIS) that uses biometric identification technology to create an intricate database accessible to federal and local law enforcement. NGIS is a nationwide collaboration of mugshots, iris scans, DNA records, voice samples, CCTV recordings, photo databases and other biometric data that combine to create intricate profiles on every American regardless of their criminal record. The mainstream would have us believe that marketing strategies are the reason why they spy on their customers. The giant Big Brother control known as Trapwire, accordingto a June press release, states that this software is designed to provide a simple yet powerful means of collecting and recording suspicious activity reports. A system of interconnected nodes spot information considered to be suspect and then inputs it into the system to be analyzed and compared with data entered from other areas within a network for the purpose of identifying patterns of behavior that are indicative of pre-attack planning. Susanne Posel is the Chief Editor of Occupy Corporatism. Our alternative news site is dedicated to reporting the news as it actually happens; not as it is spun by the corporately funded mainstream media. You can find us on ourFacebook page. 