Is Somebody Recording You Now?

[Mark228]

Is there Somebody (Corporate or Government) who is taking Video of Every Inch of Earth,...  24/7/365?
Mark228

[OgNasty]

Seems like that would be an awful lot of data to store. I think the NSA has other data filling their data centers, like every dick pic that’s ever been sent or copies all the junk emails everyone is receiving. I’m sure the government is capable of viewing live any spot on earth in a matter of minutes. I doubt they care about recording that information on a global scale though.

[Rruchi man]

I’m sure the government is capable of viewing live any spot on earth in a matter of minutes. I doubt they care about recording that information on a global scale though.

Recording all the time will mean piling up a whole junk of irrelevant files making it difficult to actually spot the relevant once easily. I agree that the government can get live surveillance feed of a place or individual via satellite feed, it is also possible for your phone calls to be recorded, what prompts the action however is if a person or place tickles their interest for either good or bad.

[Newlifebtc]

I’m sure the government is capable of viewing live any spot on earth in a matter of minutes. I doubt they care about recording that information on a global scale though.

Recording all the time will mean piling up a whole junk of irrelevant files making it difficult to actually spot the relevant once easily. I agree that the government can get live surveillance feed of a place or individual via satellite feed, it is also possible for your phone calls to be recorded, what prompts the action however is if a person or place tickles their interest for either good or bad.

I'm trying to understand you but i find it very difficult, i will like a situation whereby you explain better because is every is getting me confusing, because this recording of a thing is basically for government kinds of documentation or individuals kind's of documentation Because when we are talking about documents it deals with a section or sector.

[franky1]

satellites in space cannot get licence plates or face recognition
its not a issue of lens technology. .. its a issue of angle
all they can do is see if you have any headlice ON YOUR HEAD and if there is any dirt on the TOP OF YOUR CAR

yes ISP may record websites visited and metadata of those websites.. but its not like someone is actively watching you in real time. they just collect it and if you do something in the future to peak their interest into looking into you, then they can look at the current and history of their archive. but to put simply unless you are doing something to peak their interest. no one is actually looking at you right now
however if you already are a criminal or plan to do something criminal. then how about. clear up your friggen life and stop being a criminally inept idiot.
if you think your criminal act is more important than someone knowing about your private life. how about realise your criminal mindset is the fault

no country on the planet can afford to have cops watching everyone all the time. so dont panic. but at same time if your doing something your not suppose to be doing that you dont want people finding out about.. maybe try not doing it

[hornetsnest]

Is there Somebody (Corporate or Government) who is taking Video of Every Inch of Earth,...  24/7/365?
Mark228

Yes some satellite mesh constellations record every inch of the earth and can rewind back to any time and date in the past if required. Not all but some. In the future if a major event occurs anyplace or at anytime it will be commonplace to "go back in time" and review said event. Of course some private constellations will have services for private individuals and commercial entities to do likewise which will set a dangerous precedent with regards privacy in cases where stalkers and other weirdos with the time and money will be able to monitor the lives of their employees and friends or neighbours without having to go to the bother of lowjacking their car or bugging their office or home.

Today a major problem is where members of any police force can go to the phone company and get any data without a warrant to stalk and spy on their partner,wife or husband etc to see if they are cheating on them. Very common and happens 24/7 so the above technology will be great fun for them too.

[Cnut237]

satellites in space cannot get licence plates or face recognition
its not a issue of lens technology. .. its a issue of angle
all they can do is see if you have any headlice ON YOUR HEAD and if there is any dirt on the TOP OF YOUR CAR

There are a hell of a lot of CCTV cameras, though. They're proliferating like crazy. As you might expect, China leads the way... but for those of us in the UK, it's worth noting that London is very high on the list.


https://www.statista.com/chart/19256/the-most-surveilled-cities-in-the-world/

Is there Somebody (Corporate or Government) who is taking Video of Every Inch of Earth,...  24/7/365?

24/7/52.14ish. Yes, I'm a pedant.

[Mark228]

Thanks for the thoughtful replies, people.
I'd heard years ago that satellites Could read a car license plate.
Alas, I s'pose not.

Actually, Cnut237,...  24/7/365.2425 says another pedantic one.   

Mark228

[hornetsnest]

I'd heard years ago that satellites Could read a car license plate.

Spy satellites don't need to. Your car has a few digital signatures that are easily picked up when tasked by active scanning.The same digital or radio frequencies can be read on toll booths and anywhere sensors are placed along road networks. Then they go to the manufacturer,car sales or motor office database and can easily see who the owner is. Then that car can be tagged with a marker like drawing a big red circle around it 24/7. Great when used to track terrorists but not so great when misused to stalk your ex (although that would take some explaining due to the level of clearance required) but in despotic regimes you could imagine there are no checks and balances . The days of needing something like a vehicle stamp number on chassis or axles are long gone.

[BernyJB]

I agree with the statements about it being a whole lot of useless data.
Are you asking if a number of intelligence agencies (not only American) are monitoring internet traffic? Most likely. It'd be naive to think otherwise.

A few years ago, I started writing a bit of an essay, about the things I had to endure during my stay under ICE's "care" (if you can call it that), while I was "detained" (not "arrested", as the American government loves its euphemisms) at the "Broward Transition Center", in Pompano Beach, Fl.
It was mostly a cathartic thing. I wasn't planning on showing it to anybody.
Most of it was done offline (as I don't have Internet access where I live).
I had typed over 100 pages already, when my computer suddenly connected to the internet for a few minutes. Probably somebody had their phone setup as a hot spot nearby.
All of a sudden, the whole thing just "disappeared" from my computer. The whole file.
Now, I'm not gonna be as infantile to think it was "bad luck", or, as somebody suggested on a different forum, that I deleted it "by mistake". I've been working on computers since 1991, I made plenty of mistakes, but never something that dumb.

Either way, it wasn't important. It served a purpose, which was to turn on a blank page. Like I said, I wasn't planning to show it to anybody.
But the "coincidence" also served a purpose: it turbocharged my paranoia about privacy and about Internet. 

[Masplanc]

I find it difficult  to think if anyone  is take record  or video  of the world , it so hard to believe  if anyone does. But I know every bad event and good event is taking record  in the world I'm very sure of this .

[Mark228]

Your car has a few digital signatures ...

HornetsNest: What "digital signatures" are you referring to?  
I've studied computer fingerprints, which uniquely identify your machine, but... what does a vehicle have / transmit?
Are you also saying that VIN numbers are History?

BernyJB: I'm not referring to Internet traffic, at all.  Of course, All of that is monitored, and probably recorded.
Re: the Essay...  That's Very Interesting.
Maybe you'd mentioned it to somebody at the bar, who then decided that it needed to be deleted, in the interest of "national security".  
Write it again.  It'll make a great movie, someday.
 

[Etranger]

Is there Somebody (Corporate or Government) who is taking Video of Every Inch of Earth,...  24/7/365?
Mark228

This is very similar to the global conspiracy theory. Most likely, there are technical possibilities for this, but the organization of such activities raises doubts. Indeed, for such a system to work, an ideally working bureaucratic apparatus is needed, which would not give failures and errors. And as we see in practice, such an apparatus is extremely difficult to implement, because everywhere there is a human factor that can lead to malfunctions. In addition, there is a question of time and analysis of this information. New records would arrive much faster than it would be possible to even classify the previous ones, not to mention their processing. Therefore, I think that the technical capabilities are still aimed at selective rather than ubiquitous surveillance.

[BernyJB]

BernyJB: I'm not referring to Internet traffic, at all.  Of course, All of that is monitored, and probably recorded.
Re: the Essay...  That's Very Interesting.
Maybe you'd mentioned it to somebody at the bar, who then decided that it needed to be deleted, in the interest of "national security".  
Write it again.  It'll make a great movie, someday.
 

Well, it wasn't really "Internet traffic", as I never uploaded it. I was working on my computer, offline (or so I thought) when it happened.
I don't go to bars, nor do I have much of a social life at all. And my work at the time didn't leave any room for that, as I was working as a security guard (which is akin to a mummy in Argentina), so I'm certain, without a shadow of a doubt, that until my computer got connected, NOBODY had a clue that essay even existed.
About the movie, that'd be a long ass, very boring flick indeed.
No torture, no deaths (besides a few guys that died out of neglect, and were carefully covered up), no sex at all (there was strict gender segregation), nothing. Just systematic medical service denial, a "doctor" that could've been great at flipping burgers, an extreme food scarcity (meaning they starved us half to death, to the point that some guards couldn't stand it and bought food for us out of their own pocket, which was greatly appreciated), and a general effort to make us feel as unwelcomed as humanly possible. If Abu Ghraib and Gitmo didn't make it to the movies, I doubt this ever will.
In any case, it was (and it is now) very painful to relive it, and it's now in the past. I spend almost 13 very happy years in the US. Today, I wouldn't go back for the world.

[worldofcoins]

Taking video of every inch of the search isn't practically possible as it would be very much costly for deployment and maintenance also acquiring the relevant data would also be difficult. 
However, surveillance cameras are deployed by the government and private people for the recording of any important places.