See, they use video feeds from intersections and specifically designed algorithms to predict traffic conditions, and thereby control traffic lights, so all i did was come up with my own kick-ass algorithm to sneak in, and now we own the place.

To keep an eye on any and all suspicious activities, and generally... get to the bottom of things.

So, if you hear something go bump in the night, never fear, because the Neighborhood Watch, as always, is watching... the neighborhood... for aliens.

Immediately after the explosives were stolen, our agencies started monitoring Liber8 chatter in several west coast cities, our investigation circled back here.

Oh, just, uh, letting you know that I have been observing the agents, overseeing what they've been up to, you know, keeping an eye on them.

All these news reports about government monitoring our digital lives, recording texts, emails, phone calls,

We used to have a handful of homeless people in town, not more than ten or 12, but I kept tabs on them.

Turning back to yesterday's brutal subway attack, the White House has issued a statement, saying the President is monitoring events in New York City and his thoughts and prayers go out to the families affected by this great tragedy.

So, in the late '60s, to escape the cameras and the prying eyes of the faculty, a few cadets started sneaking down to The Boiler Room.

Carefully curated by Moscow Center to do minimum damage to Russian interests and have maximum value advancing her career.

We installed five of these mats in the Nashik Kumbh Mela 2015, and counted over half a million people in 18 hours, ensuring that the data was available in real time at various checkpoints, ensuring a safe flow of people.

And the people who provide those capabilities to us -- the YouTubes, the Facebooks, the Twitters and TEDs -- are in the business of having to police us, or being on the hook for contributory infringement.

So again, the robots monitor this error and calculate the control commands 100 times a second, which then translates into motor commands, 600 times a second.

It also monitors the Internet and instructs local media on how to handle any potentially controversial issues, including Tibet, ethnic minorities, Human Rights, religion, democracy movements and terrorism.

We've heard talk here at TED about people biohacking and hacking their plants with Arduino, and Mozilla is doing work around the world in getting young people to build websites and make videos.

There are actually a wave of startups like Connect.Me and Legit and TrustCloud that are figuring out how you can aggregate, monitor and use your online reputation.

They're watching all of us. They've dug a basement, and they've built a spy center to try and run algorithms and figure out which ones of us are troublesome, and if any of us complain about that, we're arrested for terrorism.

And is this progress? Maybe, but we're going to be keeping a very close eye on that case.

We won't be able to access our banks and we won't be able to access commerce without worrying about people monitoring those communications or subverting them for their own ends.

(Applause) Indeed, for years, hackers have been on the wrong side of the fence, but in light of what we know now, who is more watchful of our online world?

Bia started a campaign, and we even watched her school 24/7 through webcam monitoring, and many months afterwards, the government changed their minds.

The rest of the world might casually encourage or even expect some sort of North Korean Spring, but I don't want you to do anything risky, because I know in your world, someone is always watching.

First, because as I've discussed on this stage before, I learned that the FBI has been monitoring my work.

I had even learned through the Bureau of Prisons Counterterrorism Unit, that they had been monitoring my speeches about CMUs, like this one.

(Laughter) "#@nonymous is watching #NSA #GCHQ - we are part of your organizations.

And now, what was actually needed was not to actually train teachers further or to monitor their attendance but to tell them that what is most important is for them to go back inside classrooms and teach.

Personal DNA machines are now aboard the International Space Station, where they can help monitor living conditions and protect the lives of astronauts.

By this I mean all of these nodes in the network do not need to know each other or trust each other, because they each have the ability to monitor and validate the chain for themselves.

We equipped her with modern medical technology, like this $1 malaria rapid test, and put it in a backpack full of medicines like this to treat infections like pneumonia, and crucially, a smartphone, to help her track and report on epidemics.

Many cell types and tissues in the body use chemical sensors, or chemosensors, to keep track of the concentration of hormones, metabolites and other molecules, and some of these chemosensors are olfactory receptors.

If you are a pancreas or a kidney and you need a specialized chemical sensor that will allow you to keep track of a specific molecule, why reinvent the wheel?

Through the incredible technology of these high-flying cameras, we can see, monitor and expose the unprecedented impact that we are having.

Hoover ran a program called COINTELPRO for 15 years which was designed to spy on and undermine civic groups that were devoted to things like civil rights, the Women's Rights Movement, and peace groups and anti-war movements.

When the New York Police Department spies on Muslims or a police department uses license plate detectors to find out where the officers' spouses are or those sorts of things, that is extremely dangerous.

So when Alan Greenspan was head of the Federal Reserve, his entire job was to watch out for problems in the US economy and to make sure that they didn't spin out of control.

Insulin pumps improve the lives of many of the 415 million people with diabetes around the world by monitoring blood sugar, delivering insulin, and preventing the need for constant finger-pricking and blood testing.

So my colleagues and I put massive video camera stands in a coral reef to remotely monitor entire feeding grounds that produce a lot of algae but are exposed to predators.