Wanna spy on your neighbors? There's an app for that

Wanna spy on your neighbors? There's an app for that:

West Virginia Unveils App for Suspicious Activity Reporting

 

Related posts:

1. Nebraska Fusion Center Launches Suspicious Activity Reporting Website
2. DHS Retail Sector Suspicious Activity Reporting Video
3. Kentucky Homeland Security Releases iPhone App for Suspicious Activity Reporting
4. DHS Releases Television PSAs to Promote Suspicious Activity Reporting
5. DHS Partners With City of Houston to Promote Suspicious Activity Reporting
6. DHS Suspicious Activity Reporting Selection Standards
7. Rep. Peter King’s Suspicious Activity Reporting Protection Act
8. Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI)

 

This is simply nauseating. I hope that they are overwhelmed with bogus reports.

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Maybe I'll turn in my neighbor the next time he burns trash in his back yard. Lord knows, the township won't address the issue.

 

The Stasi would be so jealous!

 

This is a good place to repost that comprehensive Washington Post series from a while back, wherein they talk about the rank idiocy of these "fusion centers" and how nobody even knows what the (expletive deleted) they're collecting. They receive SARS (Suspicious Activity Reports -- so (expletive deleted) Orwellian) all the time, they're flooded with them, and they don't know what to do with all the info, especially because the vast majority of it is worthless (expletive deleted). Again, our tax dollars at work. I linked to it in this post I wrote at the Cogblog in December 2010:
http://www.cogitamusblog.com/2010/1...o-a-walmart-near-you-her-video-urging-if.html

 

Or we could use this to report smurf activities anytime we see them about in their uniforms.....

 

Wired's account of this story:

3/2, Spencer Ackerman, Wired, Angry Birds, Meet Jailbirds: New App Helps You Snitch on Your Friends