S-77CCR is a tactical urban counter-surveillance systems for ground controlled UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) and airborne drones to monitor public space.
Contemporary war has shifted from the classical battlefield to low intensity conflicts in highly developed societies of capitalist democracies where security is under different stages of privatization and corporate control. To allow for equilibrium of skills in surveillance and a broad education of the public in control technologies, access to a technology for the people seems necessary. In respect to abuse of civil and human rights, defensive public intelligence is well advised to use advanced techniques of crime mapping and spatial representation of conflict. Self-protective tools of risk assessment in the hands of independent citizens are a prerequisite for confronting challenges of global risk environments and civil conflicts.
Semiautomatic geographic information applications can analyze street deployment of hostile elements or containment units for civil society conflict analysis. Biometric surveillance methods for the security of the cultural and political active citizen allow the tagging of government representatives and business agents. The observation of police forces or riot control units can give a tactical advantage in mass demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience.
The project is a counter response to the intense use of biometric surveillance technologies and UAVs which are gradually directed inward, into the urban public spaces of Western democracies following the end of the Cold War and the growing paranoia and fear after 9/11. The ability to control many aspects of civilian life and follow them in the name of freedom is a built-in paradox in a democratic regime, which we tend to accept automatically. The project offers a reversal to the technology and exploitation of the possibilities offered by the free market to equip groups of civilian resistance with the most advanced technologies to follow law enforcement groups.
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