Intelligent Lights - Big Brother or "Entertainment and Safety" ?

[myrobbins7]

Intelligent lights make up wireless network used for entertainment and safety

Not only can the street lights, now being rolled out in Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh with Department of Energy backing, act as surveillance cameras, Minority Report-style advertising hubs, and Homeland Security alert systems, they are “also capable of recording conversations,”

Here is some more info I found on this and this is great..
Company President and creative director Ron Harwood, who got the idea for Intellistreet working at Disney and Universal parks, said it will "make us feel not only safer, but happier."
He said this project "demonstrates how business and government can work together for economic, environmental and social benefits."
economic benifits?
Really?
Farmington Hills company installs wireless Intellistreet systems | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

 

[MG1968]

I still have to wonder how much privacy you can reasonably expect while walking down a public street.