Surveillance Systems For Home Use

April 6th, 2013

I have to wonder why home owners in general have not made more use of surveillance systems as a way to deter crime, or identify the criminals when a crime is aimed at their home.

Home Surveillance

Surveillance systems are common in commercial buildings and other public venues. However, surveillance systems are seldom seen in homes. The question is why? Are home surveillance systems ineffective? Are home surveillance systems too expensive? Are the assets that businesses protect more important or valuable than what is found in the home and therefore the expenditure not justified? I believe home surveillance systems are extremely important and certainly qualify as a justified expense.

I am surprised that more people don’t have home surveillance systems. Home surveillance systems are very…Read more 

We believe that no home should be without the protection of  a surveillance system as part of a home defense plan. The use of hidden cameras also makes a lot of sense when it comes to protecting your loved ones and property.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us and a member of our staff will be happy to help with your personal needs.

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Surveillance: We Don’t Like It, But Why?

April 3rd, 2013

What are your views on secret surveillance of the type that our government and law enforcement either employ, or are looking to employ under the guise of your safety and stopping crime and terrorism?  To help answer the question of why we don’t like it and what steps the law should take to protect us from it, the following article brings some things to light.

Surveillance is everywhere, from street corner cameras to the subject of books and movies. “We talk a lot about why surveillance is bad, but we don’t really know why,” says Neil Richards, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis.

“We only have a vague intuition about it, which is why courts don’t protect it. We know we don’t like it, and that it has something to do with privacy, but beyond that, the details can be fuzzy.”

Richards says that there are two real dangers of surveillance…Read more

Saying secret surveillance is harmful is an understatement. We fully endorse the use of surveillance systems and hidden cameras by private citizens to help keep an eye on and protect business and private property. We do not endorse and find secret surveillance and information gathering by agencies of our government to be anything but an attempt at controlling the people.

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US Citizens Urged To Oppose Drone Surveillance

March 4th, 2013

There is so much that our government does not tell us. I have heard about 60 plus sites for drone activity throughout the U.S. and about the fights being led against it and for good reason.  I have been informed that Congress passed the FAA Re-authorization Act, with its provision to deploy fleets of drones domestically. To me that is disturbing, and I believe it should be disturbing to everyone else who values their freedom. Having the government, law enforcement, or anyone else spying on me as a private citizen in my own back yard is not my idea of public safety, or home land security. It is spying on your citizens period. That is not a government for the people, or by the people.

 

The conservative American Political Action Committee (AmeriPAC) Saturday sent out mass e-mails to citizens, asking them to put pressure on the U.S. Congress to stop surveillance of Americans using drones in U.S. airspace.

 The mass e-mail, signed by AmeriPAC chairman Alan M. Gottlieb, said that shocking news reports reveal that President Barack Obama will authorize the surveillance of Americans using drones in U.S. airspace, and the U.S. Homeland Security Department is purchasing ammunition.

 ”We must demand Congress get to the bottom of these stories and give the American people some answers. This Administration claims to be the most transparent Americans have seen in years yet the White House continues to side step and deny,” the e-mail said.

 According to the e-mail, “There is a brick wall between the privacy of individuals and public security that could be soon crossed.”

 ”A camera on a public street corner for issuing speeding tickets is one thing but drones flying over that brick wall, invading the privacy of any Americans property and recording you in your back yard is extreme and illegal and unconstitutional,” the e-mail added.

 According to the e-mail, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has in the past year purchased over 2 billion rounds of ammunition.

 ”This is enough ammo to supply the U.S. Military for years in an all-out war; the problem is that DHS does not supply our Military,” the e-mail said.

 According to the e-mail, the DHS is also involved in authorizing drones to fly all across the United States. They have created a video they are giving to Law Enforcement all over the country showing what these drones are capable of. Read More…

It appears to me that something wicked this way comes. None of the moves by our present administration is a good sign.  The whole gun control deal, “Home Land Security” buying 2500 armored combat vehicles, along with over a Billion rounds of ammunition and weapons. Obama asking his highest military leaders if they are willing to fire on American civilians.  What do you think?

One thing we do endorse is the use of surveillance systems and hidden cameras for the protection of innocent people and the prosecution of criminals. If you have any questions about our products, please contact us.

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Home Land Security Has Built Domestic Surveillance Technology Into Predator Drones

March 4th, 2013

Government surveillance of civilians is NOT something needed to protect our country from terrorists. It IS  a clear indication of the tightening of control over the people that the government is ever working toward. It would be good for each one of us to start seriously thinking about why the government of a free nation is methodically working toward that end. To me the answer is clear.

 

Homeland Security’s specifications say drones must be able to detect whether a civilian is armed. Also specified: “signals interception” and “direction finding” for electronic surveillance.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance tasks that have civil libertarians worried: identifying civilians carrying guns and tracking their cell phones, government documents show.

The documents provide more details about the surveillance capabilities of the department’s unmanned Predator B drones, which are primarily used to patrol the United States’ northern and southern borders but have been pressed into service on behalf of a growing number of law enforcement agencies including the FBI, the Secret Service, the Texas Rangers, and local police.

Homeland Security’s specifications for its drones, built by San Diego-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, say they “shall be capable of identifying a standing human being at night as likely armed or not,” meaning carrying a shotgun or rifle. They also specify “signals interception” technology that can capture communications in the frequency ranges used by mobile phones, and “direction finding” technology that can identify the locations of mobile devices or two-way radios.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center obtained a partially redacted copy of Homeland Security’s requirements for its drone fleet through the Freedom of Information Act and published it this week. CNET unearthed an unredacted copy of the requirements that provides additional information about the aircraft’s surveillance capabilities.

Homeland Security's Predator B drone can stay aloft conducting surveillance for 20 hours.Homeland Security’s Predator B drone can stay aloft conducting surveillance for 20 hours.(Credit: U.S. Department of Homeland Security)

Concern about domestic use of drones is growing, with federal legislation introduced last month that would establish legal safeguards, in addition to parallel efforts underway from state and local lawmakers. The Federal Aviation Administration recently said that it will “address privacy-related data collection” by drones.

The prospect of identifying armed Americans concerns Second Amendment advocates, who say that technology billed as securing the United States’ land and maritime borders should not be used domestically. Michael Kostelnik, the Homeland Security official who created the program, told Congress that the drone fleet would be available to “respond to emergency missions across the country,” and a Predator drone was dispatched to the tiny town of Lakota, N.D., to aid local police in a dispute that began with reimbursement for feeding six cows. The defendant, arrested with the help of Predator surveillance, lost a preliminary bid to dismiss the charges.

“I am very concerned that this technology will be used against law-abiding American firearms owners,” says Alan Gottlieb, founder and executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation. “This could violate Fourth Amendment rights as well as Second Amendment rights.”

Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection agency declined to answer questions about whether direction-finding technology is currently in use on its drone fleet. A representative provided CNET with a statement about the agency’s unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) that said signals interception capability is not currently used:  Read More…

 

The battle over our rights as American citizens protected by the Constitution of the United States against our government continues on a daily basis. Private surveillance systems to protect home, property, family, businesses, etc. is something we advocate to the fullest, obviously. That is why we sell those products, whether full systems or hidden cameras, we believe in them.

We do not believe in the government using  Predator Drones  (that can be armed in the blink of an eye with Hellfire missiles)  to monitor law abiding citizens in the name of home land security. That is just bull, and should be of great concern to us all. I personally have no desire to see our nation go from free to a dictatorship.

 

 

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Every Move You Make: US To Adopt New Biometric Surveillance System?

February 18th, 2013

The age of you having your individual privacy is coming to an end. The government is spending Hugh amounts of money on advancing new Biometric surveillance systems. Our privacy will be a thing of the past in about five years if the government has its way. I do not believe that is right in any way, shape, or form.  (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. To learn more about what your government is working on and planning for you in the way of surveillance, click the link below and watch their video on You Tube, I believe you will find it very interesting.

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They talk about Terror being the reason for all of this surveillance, the need to keep us safe. I am not buying that. Then again, for anyone who has researched 9/11 to any extent, they come away believing that it was our own people who brought down the “Twin Towers”, and that was done to get their “Terror Legislation” passed and bring them to the point they are at now. Below is a good place to start if you want to do some of your own research, after all, it’s your privacy, and your freedom we are talking about. Let us know what you think. Parts 5 through 13 are very informative.

“Zeitgeist” part 5

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Domestic Drones Should Not Be Used Against Law Abiding Citizens

February 15th, 2013

We have posted on this subject before and with good reason. Obama has a plan, and that plan has nothing to do with protecting our constitution or our free way of life. To have 30,000 plus domestic drones in American skies by 2015 is just another step taken by our own government to steal more of our freedoms and privacy. We believe that our privacy as a people is very important, and protected by our constitution, a constitution that is slowly being destroyed. State and local law enforcement want, and would love to have the power to use this new technology for what they claim would be nothing but good, and to protect the law abiding citizens within their jurisdiction. Without safeguards there is absolutely no way we should trust them with that kind of power. And now, Americans are starting to pay more and more attention to this issue.

Draganflyer X4-P, drone-like surveillance helicopter.

In the past year, the American public has begun to pay more and more attention to the issue of domestic surveillance drones. And now, recent events suggest we might be seeing the emergence of a genuine national movement against the use of surveillance drones by law enforcement. With any luck, this may even set the stage for a wider dialogue about the increasingly intrusive technologies that are intended to catch crooks—but that all too often cast an overly broad net.

Last week, after an especially raucous city council hearing, the Seattle police department terminated its drones program and agreed to return the purchased equipment to the manufacturer. This came just days after both houses of the Virginia state legislature passed historic bills imposing a two-year moratorium on the use of drones by law enforcement and regulatory agencies in the state. In Florida, a potentially even more significant bill imposing a judicial warrant requirement on police use of drones continued to march toward passage. Similar legislation has been proposed in at least 13 other state legislatures around the country so far.

Of all the threats to privacy that we face today, why have drones caught the attention of the American public to such a remarkable degree?

One possibility is that there’s something uniquely ominous about a robotic “eye in the sky.” Many privacy invasions are abstract and invisible—data mining, for example, or the profiling of Internet users by online advertisers. Drones, on the other hand, are concrete and real, and the threat requires no explanation…Read more

“We believe in and support all legislation to prevent the unwarranted or unreasonable governmental intrusion through the use of drone surveillance.”  How do you feel about the issue, do you believe like some, that if you aren’t doing anything illegal you should not mind the government looking at all you do with a microscope? Because that is exactly where we are headed, it is exactly where your government wants to put you, under a microscope.  Also, if you are interested in surveillance systems or hidden cameras for your own protection, please view what we have to offer and contact us with any questions.

 

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A Detroit Woman With A Home Surveillance System Catches Thieves In The Act

February 7th, 2013

The chances of catching these thieves is fair if someone can tell who they are through the grainy video provided. These security cameras are 6 years old and technology has come along way since then. Better quality home surveillance systems produce very clear video and pictures that do a much better job of identifying the criminals at work. The cost of such systems are probably less than what this woman paid for hers at the time of purchase 6 years ago. If you are looking to buy such a system, we can provide it along with industry leading tech support.

DETROIT, Mich (WXYZ) – A Detroit woman with a surveillance system caught two thieves breaking into her home and now with her home locked up tight, she wants them caught and convicted.

It happened back in October, but police are just releasing surveillance photos. The homeowner, Bernitta Rogers, says she is hoping this leads to the arrest of the home invaders… Read more, watch video

It is important to remember that you get what you pay for, so please read the specs when comparing surveillance systems, cameras, DVR’s, etc. And check to see if  the company you are going to do business with has any complaints against it.

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Surveillance For All, Of All

February 6th, 2013

What is taking place in the way of advancements for surveillance cameras is absolutely amazing. The technology is incredible and our military leads the way. However, what that technology will end up being used for in the future, even the near future remains to be seen. Surveillance for home and business security is one thing. Invasion of citizen privacy is another. Police departments want to start using drones and the government and military have been for sometime, they even kill with them. Obama wants his own “national citizen security force” bigger than the military. What for is what bothers us. Please take a look at this technology and tell us if you would like the government watching you in your own back yard from 22,000 feet as if they were right there with you, because that is where we are headed.

The Pentagon recently released new details about a 1.8 gigapixel surveillance camera it has mounted on a drone. Here’s an extract from a PBS documentary that gives you an idea of what that means in practice: Read more, watch video…

We love the idea of catching bad guy’s through the use of surveillance systems. We don’t love the idea of having the government spying on law abiding citizens. Surveillance for all, of all, is unconstitutional. Please comment.

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Is The Loss Of Privacy And Rights Worth Government Surveillance Benefits

January 18th, 2013

The police now want to use drones like our military does to do a multitude of things. What it amounts to, is the police being able to spy on law abiding citizens who are engaged in nothing illegal. We all should have an expectation that as long as we are following the law, we should be left alone and in privacy. That is not what is planned in Florida. Government surveillance may be going too far, at least that is what one state senator thinks and we agree.

Government surveillance going too

far?

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A state senator thinks government surveillance is going too far, so he wants to curtail the use of police drones.

Sen. Joe Negron says he wants to limit how far police can go to spy on people so he’s filed legislation that would ban unmanned aircraft with certain exceptions.

Police could use drones to investigate possible terror attacks, prevent imminent danger to people or property, or if they got a search warrant.

Negron says it’s OK to kill terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan with drones, but he believes they should not be used routinely to monitor law-abiding Floridians…Read more

Though we are big advocates of the use of surveillance systems and hidden cameras to watch over homes, property and businesses, we do not believe that law enforcement should have the right to outwardly spy on law abiding people. And that is exactly where this will go if they are left unchecked. All for our own good of course. Please share your own thoughts.

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Surveillance Video Catches Thief Stealing $7K Necklace

January 17th, 2013

Here is a perfect example of  why you would want quality video cameras as opposed to what you believe is a great deal that only delivers grainy video and pictures at best. The pictures shown of this perpetrator were taken with good surveillance system cameras and leave little room for error when it comes to identifying him. He was caught quickly because of quality surveillance video.

DAYTONA BEACH – 

A suspect in a necklace theft caught on video is in police custody.

Brandon Haught, a spokesman with the sheriff’s office said the thief took his time reaching over the counter of the Oscar’s Estate Jewelry at the Daytona Flea and Farmers Market Saturday, Jan. 12.

The suspect eventually pocketed an 18-karat gold necklace with one-half karat heart-shaped diamonds, which is worth an estimated $7,000….Read more, see pic

If you are going to buy, buy a decent surveillance system, not something you feel you got a deal on that only delivers grainy pictures and video that leaves you wondering what your looking at.

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