[Animats]

In the US, law enforcement is split among too many organizations to implement a Big Brother system competently. Every little police department has their own system, and private sector systems aren't integrated with government systems. Look at the mess in DC - their camera system was taken over by a botnet. Not even to use the camera data, just to mooch network resources.

There's an business opportunity here. There's an outsourced surveillance industry, but it's small.[1] One of the big players has only 9,000 cameras. Nobody has scaled this yet.

Amazon might. They've already convinced millions of people to put a microphone in every room, reporting to Amazon HQ. Now they're getting into cameras and door locks.

Google, probably not. Their Nest unit makes stuff that looks good, but doesn't work well.

[1] http://stealthmonitoring.com/

[hi-im-mi-ih]

I recommend against purchasing surveillance services from a company that does not have HTTPS on their landing page.

[kbart]

"In the US, law enforcement is split among too many organizations to implement a Big Brother system competently."

NSA begs your pardon..

[soundwave106]

As bad the NSA's current data collection activities are, I don't think it compares to China's Big Brother.

I seriously doubt in China, for instance, that the EFF that highlighted much of the NSA's surveillance activities would even be allowed to exist.

[nyolfen]

> In the US, law enforcement is split among too many organizations to implement a Big Brother system competently. Every little police department has their own system, and private sector systems aren't integrated with government systems.

look up so-called 'fusion centers'