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Surveillance State
Asurveillance state is a country where the government engages in pervasive surveillance of large numbers of its citizens and visitors. Such widespread surveillance is usually justified as being necessary to prevent crime or acts of terrorism, but may also be used to stifle criticism of and opposition to the government.
Examples of early surveillance states include the former Soviet Union and the former East Germany, which had a large network of informers and an advanced technology base in computing and spy-camera technology. But these states did not have today’s technologies for mass surveillance, such as the use of databases and pattern recognition software to cross-correlate information obtained by wire tapping, including speech recognition and telecommunications traffic analysis, monitoring of financial transactions, automatic number plate recognition, the tracking of the position of mobile telephones, and facial recognition systems. $
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Movie Review: T-Men
Movie Review: T-Men (1947) directed by. Anthony Mann
When an informant who was supposed to deliver a paper sample to the Treasury Department turns up dead (with no paper) in Los Angeles, the investigation of a major counterfeiting ring is stalled. It’s determined that new agents who won’t be identified so easily will be needed. They’ll go undercover with one of the gang’s customers in Detroit,…
Colonel Ioan Popescu, who traveled with a false passport under the name #JamesBond to secretly negotiate #Romania’s “turn around” against Germany in 1943 may have been Ian Fleming’s inspiration for his character.
Warden: I have a black belt.
Six: In Karate?
Warden: From Gucci.
