Increasing Government Control, Repression: Documented; every surveillance camera on the way to work in New York City, and it revealed a dystopian reality. To initial number of cameras estimated to reach over 50 (5) billion worldwide in only two years. Global video-surveillance industry forecast to reach over $60 (6) billion. New York City has an estimated 9,000 (3×3) cameras.

James Pasley Business Insider•December 5, 2019

America, home of the brave, land of the free, is watching.

Photos here:

https://news.yahoo.com/documented-every-surveillance-camera-way-123000944.html

Tens of millions of cameras are watching people across the country. The total number of cameras in the world could reach 45 billion by 2022, when the global video-surveillance industry is forecast to reach $63 billion.

As Arthur Holland Michel, who wrote a book about high-tech surveillance, told The Atlantic in June, “Someday, most major developed cities in the world will live under the unblinking gaze of some form of wide-area surveillance.”

New York City has an estimated 9,000 cameras linked to a system the New York Police Department calls the “Domain Awareness System.” But there are more cameras that aren’t linked to the system.

I documented all the cameras on my daily commute from Brooklyn to our office in Manhattan’s Financial District. Here’s what I found.

When my editor assigned this, I agreed immediately. It was only as I went home that day, noticing all the cameras around me, that I began to realize the truth behind the saying “Ignorance is bliss.”