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In 1986, Congress passed the Electronic Communications Privacy Act which allowed law enforcement to use rapidly expanding technologies such as video surveillance. The law sought to balance an individual's right to privacy with law enforcement's need to collect information for public safety. The New York Trade Center bombing is a recent example applying the 1986 Act. A key confidant of the defendant became a government witness. As a result, the FBI was able to conduct extensive video surveillance (April to June of 1993) of the defendant at his home, collecting the evidence that was used to convict him.6
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GERMANTOWN, MD/September 21, 2007/PRNewswire-FirstCall — Optelecom-NKF, Inc. (NASDAQ:OPTC), today announced the introduction of a new group of IP-based video surveillance products developed by Optelecom-NKF and based on Texas Instruments’ (TI) DaVinci™ digital media technology. Leveraging TI’s high performance, DaVinci TMS320DM6446 digital media processors and Optelecom-NKF’s proprietary compression algorithms, Optelecom-NKF was able to create its own unique video codecs to deliver DVD-quality video performance at both high and low bit rates with the company’s MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 compression algorithms.
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Wireless based video surveillance has emerged as one of the major components of high technology initiatives to help secure U.S. borders. Sindhara's new generation, wavelet based video technology, enables the encoding and transmission of full motion video with synchronized audio, over all cellular and other wireless networks.
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Today announced the Beijing Metro System has selected its technology for a video surveillance and communication system serving Line 1 and Line 2 of the Beijing Metro System. Terms of the contract were not disclosed.
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