Targets name has popped up in various places nationwide in other surveillance news. The most high profile of its surveillance activities has been the companys financing of expansive CCTV surveillance systems in cities nationwide. One of the literally dozens of these cities is West Palm Beach, where Target bought the city enough surveillance cameras to blanket the downtown area:Please note that by playing this clip YouTube and Google will place a long-term cookie on your computer. Furthermore, Target also operates its own, fully private fusion centers, “investigations centers” where it monitors surveillance operations at its hundreds of stores nationwide using high tech tools, even satellite imagery. The corporation has fourteen of these investigations centers and a couple forensic facilities, too, meaning there are less than five federal and state government fusion centers for every private Target crime center. The Boston Globe reports:
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