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Title: Thermal Cameras On Boston Streets Can Show Activity Inside Homes...
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URL Source: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/04/11/thermal-cameras-show-too-much/
Published: Apr 11, 2011
Author: Lisa van der Pool of the Boston Business
Post Date: 2011-04-11 23:25:36 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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BOSTON (CBS) – A thermal imaging project in the city of Boston has been put on hold because of privacy concerns. Lisa van der Pool of the Boston Business Journal reports. Boston officials had hoped to have aerial and street-level photos taken across about four square miles of the city this winter using infrared cameras that would show heat loss in the city homes. Officials planned on sharing the photos and analysis with homeowners, and were hoping the findings would increase enrollment in efficiency programs and also create business opportunities. But, the project hit a snag when the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts raised concerns that the infrared cameras would reveal information about what’s going on inside the homes. Sagewell’s cameras can take up to 20,000 images of homes per day. Despite the concern, towns outside of Boston have not had any problems with the program. Utilities and environmental groups from Springfield and Hamilton are in the process of initiating the same project in their communities.
Thermal Cameras Show Too Much?
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#1. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
It wouldn't be long before that would be changed to "planning that the findings would enforce enrollment in efficiency programs and create business opportunities for an elite monopoly." Their delicate concerns over privacy issues, is just to whet our appetites for such an innovative technology, that will show the suckers where the heat loss is occuring in their homes.
I want either less corruption or more opportunity to participate in it. Ashleigh Brilliant
The use of infrared or heat sensitive viewers to see "through" walls was raised and admitted more than 20 years ago. Presumably the technology has improved since then. Additionally, modern construction techniques may have encumbered that technology with thicker and multilayer walls, more electronic ("hot") equipment in the house to confuse the viewers. What might be more intriguing is that, for at least 40 years, there has been equipment by which a truck, loaded with equipment, can move down a street and the equipment can identify if the TV or radio in a house is on and, if so, what station it is tuned to. In the UK they use such equipment to trap people who have failed to pay their annual TV license fees; in the US it's being used to calculate audience statistics much like the Nielsen ratings.
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I want either less corruption or more opportunity to participate in it. Ashleigh Brilliant
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U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
Officials planned on sharing the photos and analysis with homeowners, and were hoping the findings would increase enrollment in efficiency programs and also create business opportunities
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