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USA: Trapwire surveillance system exposed in document leak - Papers released by WikiLeaks show US department of homeland security paid $832,000 to deploy system in two cities

13 August 2012

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"It sounds like something from the film Minority Report: a CCTV surveillance system that recognises people from their face or walk and analyses whether they might be about to commit a terrorist or criminal act. But Trapwire is real and, according to documents released online by WikiLeaks last week, is being used in a number of countries to try to monitor people and threats"

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