[CivilWarBrewing]

Oh great, now they can watch American citizens inside their homes in the middle of the night.

[Purdue77]

I really hope that you didn't mean your comment to be literal. If this satellite is a SIGINT satellite then it only listens and will be posted on the other side of the planet.

Signals intelligence (SIGINT) is intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, whether communications between people (communications intelligence—abbreviated to COMINT) or from electronic signals not directly used in communication (electronic intelligence—abbreviated to ELINT).