SpyGearCo: Spy and Surveillance

Surveillance of the public now extends well beyond video cameras to include vast systems of identification, data monitoring, and tracking. And these days portable surveillance is getting smaller and smaller. Public surveillance technologies are increasingly embedded in urban infrastructures, transportation systems, cell phones, identification documents, computer programs, televisions, medical and consumer products, and much more.

Video surveillance systems can also be used inside and outside schools and private residences as an extra measure of security. There are a myriad of different systems with varying levels of sophistication within a wide price range. Video surveillance systems are even common in commercial, industrial, and residential environments.

A common surveillance activity is to track important people, or people exhibiting suspicious behavior, as they move from camera to camera. The Micro PI CamStick PRO is an easy-to-use micro camcorder that monitors your home, office, kids, pets, any place or anything you want, including your cheating spouse. 

Security personnel have to deal with threats of terrorism, the many rules and regulations of the aviation industry, and the hustle and bustle within the terminal. Without using the newest innovations in video surveillance technology, airports wouldn’t be as safe as what they are today.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at 4:14 pm and is filed under Spy Cam. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Parents need to be in regular contact with their children whom nowadays almost all carry a cell phone and may be occurring and to check teen cell phones periodically for proper use. Also, parents need to talk to their teens about proper cell phone use and reporting abuse immediately. Parents have even more reason for concern. Parents can also receive a confirmation that evening that their message was sent.

Many times the cell phone of a teen is in another location or in a backpack where in many cases parents cannot reach their child. In an emergency, parents need to reach there child or teen right away.

Parents should also explain to their children that text messaging is not an acceptable forum for discussing more serious matters. Parents, alike, should understand that if there is an emergency, they are to contact the school’s front office in order to reach their child.

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This entry was posted on Monday, October 26th, 2009 at 3:40 pm and is filed under Surveillance News. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Using a Hidden Camera with the new USB/DVR4 has the power of your own PC to obtain a professional grade 4-channel digital video recording system at a fraction of the cost of a “stand alone” DVR. New H.264 compression offers 4 times the storage per gigabyte and higher D1 resolution than other models. Use the power of your own PC to obtain a professional grade 4-channel digital video recording system at a fraction of the cost of a “stand alone” DVR.

The USB/DVR4 has Power of H.264 Compression – 704 x 570 Super Hi Resolution. To set up a powerful 4 cameras professional hidden camera system, simply plug in the USB 2.0 cable to your Windows based PC or laptop, attach your own hidden cameras, and you’re done! All the advanced features, usually found in only high priced, professional units, are at your command.

You may use wired hidden cameras by simply plugging the RCA jack from the hidden camera to one RCA jack of the USB/DVR. Or in the case of wireless hidden cameras, simply attach one end of the RCA cable from the wireless receiver that comes with the hidden camera and the other end to one RCA jack of the USB/DVR.

Bear in mind that using wireless hidden cameras require a wireless receiver and the Line Of site between the camera and the receiver is generally limited to 1,000 Ft. LOS and walls and other obstacles may and probably will decrease the range. In addition a wireless router that is on in the vicinity of the cameras receivers may also interfere with the 2.4Ghz signal if the router is on the same frequency. So, if you can manage a wired hidden camera installation your better off going that route.

The USB/DVR uses H.264 is a video compression technology in the MPEG-4 standard, also known as MPEG-4 Part 10. Using H.264, you can delivery higher-quality video with less bandwidth than many alternative encoding’s.

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This entry was posted on Monday, October 19th, 2009 at 2:52 pm and is filed under Hidden Cameras. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Jaycee Dugard was last seen as she was walking to a bus stop in South Lake Tahoe. She was trying to catch her school bus.

Jaycee Dugard , who spent 18 years in captivity, is finally speaking out about her ordeal in the pages of People Magazine . The mag, which hits newsstands on Friday, also features the first adult photo of Jaycee Dugard released since she was found. Jaycee’s family has prayed for her return.

They have held vigils and begged for help from the community. Jaycee Lee Dugard and her two children were rescued 18 years after she was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe at age 11. During the 18 year period her alleged kidnapper, Phillip Garrido fathered her two children, now aged 11 and 15. 

Perhaps the death penalty does not apply in kidnapping and rape – although that can take someone’s quality of life away like it did for the victim, but, Phillip and Nancy Garrido took 18 years of this girls life.

Children under the age of 6 are primarily targets of family kidnapping, which peaks at about age 2 and declines thereafter. The risk of kidnapping by a stranger is comparatively low for preschoolers but rises throughout the elementary school years and reaches its peak around age 15. Children of middle-class or upper-class Mexicans, yet the problem does span all socio-economic levels, are too often stolen away from their families and homes. Kidnappers can work in sophisticated groups, following family members to learn routines or working with the help of hired domestic employees. Children should make a deal with their parents that they’d never call from an ATM. If they do, it’s likely they’re in a heist — and the red flag has been raised.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 at 4:44 pm and is filed under GPS Tracking. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Jaycee Duggard’s kidnapping/rape, is by no means a story that one, especially a news reporter, should poke fun at. Shame on the BBC and this dippy reporter! Jaycee and these two children had virtually no life they could call their own. Their world was the secluded quarters of a cloistered backyard.

Jaycee Duggard was held hostage more than 1,000 times as long as the Stockholm bank employees. She was alone much of that time, not part of a group. Jaycee Duggard’s road back depends upon the minds agility, too.

Because now she must see that she was in danger from predators who posed as her saviors. Jaycee Duggard was 11 years old when she was snatched off the street by two people in a car near her home in South Lake Tahoe in full view of her step-father in 1991. She had been kept in backyard sheds at the house of her kidnappers for 18 years and is the mother of two girls, 15 and 11, fathered by Philipp Garrido, a convicted and listed sex-offender, who kidnapped her with his wife.

There are and will be many more Jaycee Duggard’s as our world explodes in violence as we reach the apocalypse in 2012.

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This entry was posted on Monday, October 12th, 2009 at 6:31 pm and is filed under GPS Tracking. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Cell phone tracking is neither good nor bad. It is just one tool in the toolbox for parents. Cell phone tracking is more usable from afar. Perhaps people don’t mind being located in proximity to a cell tower (presuming no GPS enabling, which if they’ve done, I presume they don’t mind more specific tracking). Cell phone tracking is used to solve more routine crimes like car theft which has never reported outside the local papers.

If you’ve heard of free cell phone tracking available on the Internet, think again. GPS cell phone tracking is growing in popularity among consumers. As the cell phone technology improves, people are realizing just what they can do with their phones and GPS cell phone tracking has become quite popular. GPS tracking is probably never going to be free in my lifetime. There are too many powers that be that have a vested interest in making me pay for this type of information. GPS phones work very well for turn-by-turn directions on highways, roads, and cities wherever you get coverage and in some cases, just by satellite. They work just as well as a dedicated GPS for this purpose offering voice commands and visual mapping on the screen.

Mobile phone tracking software is one of the surest ways for tracking lost cell phones. Users simply have to subscribe for the software and acquire a license from the preferred company and install the software in their cellular phones. Mobile cell phone theft is on the rise like nothing else and it did not need to have a rocket scientist to oversee at the launch of this technology that cell phones will be prone to theft like never before. Just as the name suggests cell phones are mobile, small in size and portable. Mobile applications will play a large role as well. Interoperability of systems will continue to be a big focus, especially in areas such as emergency management.

Parents should be able to trust their kids enough to not spy on them. They probably already have an idea of where their children are; they don’t need to track everything. Parents can use them to monitor their children, friends use them to keep up with one another’s hangouts, and travelers use them to find local information and directions wherever they are. These and yet-unimagined uses are only going to become more commonplace, as products such as Apple’s iPhone 3G and T-Mobile’s G1 bring cell phone GPS tracking and applications into more and more people’s pockets. Parents can keep a watch on their children’s habits through cell phone tracking. Investigation agencies too monitor known criminals.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, October 8th, 2009 at 8:48 pm and is filed under GPS Tracking. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

Domestic violence is essentially about power and control in relationships. By definition, mutual battering does not exist. Domestic violence is not reported very well and is therefore hard to measure. But based on surveys from shelters and so forth, the US may have less battering than some other nations around the world. Domestic violence is perpetrated regardless of age, income, education, religion, sexual orientation, culture or race.

Domestic violence is a common reality in our society. It occurs in all social classes, ethnic groups, cultures and religions. Domestic violence is a significant problem in the United States. Between 1989 and 2004, 21,124 women died at the hands of an intimate; 8,997 men died in domestic violence during the same time period. Because the U.S. Domestic violence is not an isolated, individual event, but rather a pattern of repeated behaviors. Unlike stranger-to-stranger violence, in domestic violence the assaults are repeated against the same victim by the same perpetrator.

Domestic violence is control by one partner over another in a dating, marital or live-in relationship. Domestic violence occurs in every culture, country and age group. Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive and threatening behaviors that may include physical, emotional, economic and sexual violence as well as intimidation, isolation and coercion.

The purpose of domestic violence is to establish and exert power and control over another; men most often use it against their intimate partners, such as current or former spouses, girlfriends, or dating partners.

Domestic Violence is any pattern of behavior within an intimate relationship used by one partner to coerce, dominate or isolate another person, or the exertion of any form of power that maintains control in an intimate relationship. Domestic violence may include but is not limited to emotional, psychological, physical, economic, sexual abuse and social isolation.

Domestic violence is also called family violence. It involves intentional repeated acts which cause physical or emotional harm committed most usually by an intimate partner – it is any forceful behavior used to coerce another person into doing what the perpetrator wants done without regard for the victims rights, feelings or well-being. Domestic violence is a serious problem. It is a common cause of injury. Domestic violence is not a mistake. It’s a revealing.

Domestic violence is any criminal offense involving violence or physical harm or threat of violence or physical harm when committed by one cohabitant against another. Domestic violence is against the law.

Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women between the ages of 15 and 44 in our country, and the FBI estimates that a woman is beaten every 15 seconds. Thirty percent of female homicide victims are killed by partners or ex-partners and 1,500 women are murdered as a result of domestic violence each year in the United States.

Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior that occurs between individuals in intimate relationships. While domestic violence is typically associated with those who are married or dating, domestic violence may also occur between family members who reside together in the same household.

Abuse or domestic violence is when one parent bullies or frightens the other parent so they don’t feel like they can say or do what they want to. Most often (but not always) it’s the male parent who is abusive. Abused women have a 60 percent higher rate of neurological, gynecological and stress-related problems compared to women who have never been abused, according to Kaiser Permanente.

Women, by 72 percent, think this is at least a very serious problem, while just over half (54%) of men agree. Not surprisingly, among victims of domestic violence, the number jumps to 84 percent. Women are ten times more likely to be victimized by an intimate partner than men. Approximately two million women in America are victims of domestic violence every year.

Children who grow up in abusive homes are more likely to become abusers or be abused themselves. A boy who grows up with a father who beats his mother tends to see women as weak and submissive and repeat the cycle of abuse in his own relationships. Child abuse and neglect, and other forms of domestic violence affects all races, ages, religions, socio economic backgrounds and education levels. Fathers who play a positive and involved role in their children’s life have been shown to reduce a child’s risk of suffering from abuse and neglect. Children who grow up in abusive homes are more likely to be abused and have behavioral problems than are other children. As adults, they’re more likely to become abusers or think abuse is a normal part of a relationship.

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This entry was posted on Friday, October 2nd, 2009 at 5:19 pm and is filed under GPS Tracking. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comment will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.