Social Media Helps Track Down Car Vandal
With the widespread use of social media and social networking, everyday people are becoming more and more recognizable. This fact was proven once again recently when a man was recorded smashing a car...
View ArticleOne California City's Surveillance Success Story
For the past ten years the city of Lynwood, Calif. has struggled to fight gang violence and prostitution. It wasn’t having much success, however, and started looking for a new way to clean up its...
View ArticleYour Camera Placement Guide to Catching a Hooded Hood
With the advent of security cameras for business use, criminals have been looking for new ways to go undetected. Most, if not all, businesses install surveillance gear as high as possible to get a...
View Article‘Soft Biometrics’ are the Next Big Thing in Surveillance
Surveillance security systems and smart DVRs have come a long way in the past decade with the invention of features such as motion detection, scheduled recording, and live video streaming over the web....
View Article‘Surveillance House’ Used to Catch Serial Burglar
After a series of break-ins in Hockley, Birmingham, UK that all seemed to be carried out by the same serial burglar, local authorities decided not to leave his arrest up to chance and to instead set a...
View ArticleOlympics Surveillance Legacy Reaches Across the Atlantic
Many have predicted that the legacy of the London 2012 Olympics will be one of surveillance, but with New York’s recent “Domain Awareness System” announcement, it’s looking like city security expansion...
View ArticleMarketers Give Mannequins Ability to See and Think, But Not Feel
Select fashion brands, including Benetton, have begun employing mannequins with complex cameras in their eyes to profile customer demographics and behaviors in order to maximize window display and...
View ArticleTaxi Cams, School Lunch Theft and More – Security News Roundup, Week of July 22
In a week that brought many highlights from the security world, we see cows being tracked with GPS, surveillance cameras that save lives, and more stories from around the globe. Surveillance Cameras...
View ArticleAirbnb Horror Stories, Hero Cat, and More – Security News Roundup
Airbnb users complete thousands of transactions renting out homes and apartments each year, but not all of them leave both host and renter satisfied. Airbnb has accrued quite the list of horror stories...
View ArticleGPS Trackers, Cameras and Heart Monitors All Work to Protect Rhinos
In the process of monitoring the security industry, it’s always exciting when we find products used for good. Whether it’s hidden cameras used to bring a child abuser to justice, or a GPS tracker used...
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