Microsoft helps New York City Police Department develop crime surveillance system

Microsoft helps develop and analyze various crime data real-time monitoring systems. Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York announced the Domain Awareness System, which was developed in cooperation with Microsoft. A data aggregation and analysis system jointly developed by Microsoft and the New York Police Department enabled people to enter the on-site cameras, 911 calls, map crime statistics, and read crime-resistant license plates.
The domain awareness system based on Microsoft technology will be available to 30% of law enforcement and intelligence agencies around the world in the city of New York, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police chief Kelly announced today. The system, launched today, can help authorities vigilant about potential terrorist activities and fight crimes every day. Bloomberg said in a press conference that the security command center under Manhattan. The center serves as a hub for information from various sources including web video camera programming to issue alerts if there is an unattended parcel at the entrance of the building, as well as 600 radiation detectors and over 100 license plate readers to police cars and bridges , tunnels and streets.
We are looking for new ways to make full use of existing cameras, crime data and other tools to support our investigation work and make it easier for them to judge whether crime is part of a continuous model.
The system will only be used to monitor public places and activities, there is no legal protection of the existence of reasonable privacy expectations, "Do not use facial recognition technology, according to the Ministry of Public Security privacy guidelines video will be retained for 30 days, while the metadata, five-year license plate The data, the so-called "data collected by the environmental testing equipment designed for the harm of terrorist threats," will be held indefinitely.