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As you walk down the street, it\u2019s hard to imagine that your privacy could be violated by the street light above you \u2013 but in San Diego, California, this nightmare is currently reality. San Diego\u2019s City Council is seeking a moratorium on a contract that allowed General Electric (GE) to install thousands of surveillance cameras and microphones in city street lights, and sell the data collected from these cameras and microphones to third parties. The Union Tribune<\/a> also found that San Diego\u2019s city council had approved police access to these cameras and microphones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The total amount of money that GE has earned from selling information garnered from their street light cameras is currently unknown, though California Globe<\/a> claims it to be over 1 billion USD. What is known, is that GE earned 30 million USD from San Diego\u2019s city council to install these cameras and microphones in street lights under the guise of looking at traffic flows and environmental data and has the legal, government granted rights to sell whatever \u201csource data\u201d is gleaned from the surveillance equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This type of selling out of residents\u2019 information is actually par for the course for government agencies across the country. California\u2019s Department of Motor Vehicles<\/a> (DMV) earns millions of dollars a year selling your private information to third parties, as does Florida<\/a>. The contract, was approved by the City Attorney Mara Elliot, who was also found to be holding GE stock at the time. Attorney Cory Briggs, a candidate for City Attorney, told San Diego\u2019s NBC 7 news channel<\/a> in October 2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis was presented as an energy efficiency update to street lights. It turns out that they\u2019re gathering the data. They\u2019ve been giving it to the police, but they\u2019re also [potentially] giving it to Wall Street with no constraints whatsoever. Well, that\u2019s exactly what Facebook was doing when it was giving data to big tech, so that people could take it and use it for political purposes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

San Diego\u2019s smart streetlights are quite the invasion of privacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A map of these streetlights\u2019 location can be found online<\/a>. GE has since stated to the press that they have sold Current, the company behind the CityIQ smart streetlights. They provided this statement to NBC 7:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGE Current, a Daintree company, manufactures smart city nodes that collect data supporting macro-level trends like traffic flow patterns, parking information and environmental conditions.<\/p>

The data collected from those nodes is exclusively owned by the city, and any assertion otherwise is wholly inaccurate.<\/p>

Unless explicitly instructed to do so by the city in accordance with all applicable law, Current does not provide that data to any third parties.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A copy of the contract between GE and San Diego attained by NBC 7 clarifies that last bit of damage control word soup from GE. According to the contract:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[The city grants GE] nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable right and license to collect, use, reproduce, make available, aggregate, modify, display, perform, store (digitally or otherwise), transmit, make derivative works of and otherwise process the source data, in each case as permitted by applicable law.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

While it is somewhat expected that your every movement could possibly be watched, tracked, and analyzed<\/a> when you are in a private corporation\u2019s place such as a shopping mall, it is a way harder pill to swallow that the same is happening when you are simply walking down the street. Even if GE or Current haven\u2019t made a cent from selling information from these cameras and microphones \u2013 the fact that these public surveillance devices are always recording and available to the local police department without a warrant is concerning enough. Mass surveillance is here, and as usual, it is government sanctioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featured image from Eli Pousson shared via CC By 2.0 License<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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