Some surveillance links

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An interesting disconnect: Americans claim they want privacy, but then act as if they don’t.

This segment of the NPR podcast Invisibilia discusses the first traffic cameras and a guy who since way back in the 1990s has been wearing a computer to record everything he does.

Last month, the city of Round Rock gave up on its red light cameras, because they weren’t generating the hoped for profits.

Old news: N.S.A. devises radio pathway into computers.

And this NPR story about drones that can take pictures of whole urban areas, once a second every second, for six hours at a stretch.