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Stephen Russell is a serial entrepreneur, investor, writer, and all-around-believer in the power of technology to reshape the world. InHardFocus.com contains his musings on topics including surveillance, privacy, security technology and more.
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Newark Uses Cameras to Deter Crime
Amidst reports of cameras not doing anything at all to deter crime, Newark opened its new Surveillance Operations Center last week, and released a report claiming that murders and rapes had declined s...
Video Evidence Doesn't Discriminate
Here's one for people who worry that surveillance video puts too much power in the hands of police. In this case, video helped a defendant (Guillermo Alarcon, Jr., pictured left) prove that police had...
No Place to Hide for Camera-shy Criminals
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20080121035546155C224410CCTV cameras, commissioned by the Tshwane Metro Council three years ago, have helped to reduce crime and tr...
LA to Profile Muslim Communities
The Los Angeles police have begun a difficult and controversial program to identify and reach out to some of the area’s more insular Muslim communities.There are an estimated 500,000 Muslims in Los ...
