Operation Virtual Shield is a program implemented by
Chicago, IL
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mayor Richard M. Daley, which created the most extensive video
surveillance
Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, many activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing or directing. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment, such as c ...
network in the United States
by linking more than 3000 surveillance cameras to a centralized monitoring system, which captures and processes camera feeds in real time. It also includes sensors such as biological, chemical, and radiological sensors.
It is able to detect suspicious or dangerous activity and identify its location, and now incorporates
facial recognition Facial recognition or face recognition may refer to:
* Face detection, often a step done before facial recognition
* Face perception, the process by which the human brain understands and interprets the face
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Virtual Shield is also used to record activity at a potential crime scene before police arrive at a call.
The cost of the program was $217 million, much of which came from
Homeland Security grants
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.
The retention time of technical data collected is 30 days.
Daley stated that Chicago will have a surveillance camera on every street corner by the year 2016.
See also
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Closed-circuit television
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 t ...
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Human Identification At a Distance
The Information Awareness Office (IAO) was established by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in January 2002 to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying surveillance and information technology ...
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MATRIX
Matrix most commonly refers to:
* ''The Matrix'' (franchise), an American media franchise
** '' The Matrix'', a 1999 science-fiction action film
** "The Matrix", a fictional setting, a virtual reality environment, within ''The Matrix'' (franchi ...
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Total Information Awareness
Total Information Awareness (TIA) was a mass detection program by the United States Information Awareness Office. It operated under this title from February to May 2003 before being renamed Terrorism Information Awareness.
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Gabriel Villa
References
External links
Chicago's Camera Network Is Everywhere(Wall Street Journal, November 17, 2009)
USPA International
Chicago Police Department
Crime prevention
Government of Chicago
Law enforcement techniques
Mass surveillance
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