I became an expert on East Germany, which was then the ultimate surveillance state.
Mark Sullivan of PCWorld called Glass the "ultimate surveillance," while Mark Hurst, founder of the consulting firm Creative Good, wrote that "the experience of being a citizen, in public, is about to change".
While the strengths and weaknesses of the AFHSC-GEIS system will factor in the future direction of enteric surveillance, there are a number of external factors that may also influence the ultimate surveillance strategy.
With a Hello Barbie in the hands of a child and carried everywhere they and their parents go, it could be the ultimate in audio surveillance device for miscreant hackers.
The New York Times reports that the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court, also known as the FISA court, "has quietly become almost a parallel Supreme Court, serving as the ultimate arbiter on surveillance issues and delivering opinions that will most likely shape intelligence practices for years to come... ...... How is the FISA court like a shadow Supreme Court?
But since major changes in legislation and greater judicial oversight of intelligence operations were instituted six years ago, it has quietly become almost a parallel Supreme Court, serving as the ultimate arbiter on surveillance issues and delivering opinions that will most likely shape intelligence practices for years to come, the officials said.
In an article co-authored by Julian Assange, the French newspaper Libération pointed out that in matters of spying, there are no friends: "Spying abroad is the ultimate 'grey zone' in surveillance – it is also, in France, the real blind spot of the planned law on surveillance, expected to be adopted this Wednesday".
The HAIs AS system manages data in a cumulative form with the ultimate goal of diseases' surveillance in the population and continuous improvement of quality in healthcare.
Given enough commercial and spy satellites, supplemented by aircraft and a ground system to marry it all together, the intelligence community might one day achieve the ultimate in coverage: constant, real-time surveillance of the planet.
The ultimate aim of collection and analysis of surveillance data is to detect population changes at an early stage, to inform policy and program decisions that initiate action.
The movement toward the integration of surveillance and action implies the ultimate focus of reform should move from a program-specific focus (e.g., infectious diseases) toward integration with other health problems (e.g., maternal and infant mortality).
