surveillance cameras

US doles out millions for street cameras

Local efforts raise privacy alarms

By Charlie Savage,
Globe Staff
August 12, 2007

Feeling you're being watched? There's every chance you are..
WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security is funneling millions of dollars to local governments nationwide for purchasing high-tech video camera networks, accelerating the rise of a "surveillance society" in which the sense of freedom that stems from being anonymous in public will be lost, privacy rights advocates warn.