Posted on 07/06/2015 11:47:57 AM PDT by driftdiver
A SMALL private firm in the US has developed a surveillance system of Orwellian proportions that could very well be the future of big brother.
Thirty kilometres above a chosen city, a plane hangs out of sight of the thousands of people scurrying below — continuously circling the metropolis underneath. Every second, the plane takes a photo of the entire city and all the happenings within a 64sq km radius. The images are beamed down to a control centre where they create what is akin to a real-time Google map of everything taking place.
When a crime occurs, teams of analysts simply scroll back in time to the scene of the incident and identify those involved. From that point, they can follow the target by clicking forward through the images to the present moment and pinpoint their location.
Ostensibly, surveillance is about preventing and prosecuting crimes — and while it’s only been used in a handful of cities, Persistent Surveillance Systems (PSS) are designed to do just that.
The times it has been used on US soil, the tool has allowed authorities to solve crimes in a matter of minutes.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Well, we should then be able to reduce the number of unionized LEOs, as SkyNet takes over.
Welcome to Post Patriot Act America.
This sounds like a general description of what the FBI got caught doing this year.
they could probably sell subscriptions to people wanting to know where their spouse was last night.
The FBI was also capturing cell phone data. Maybe the same plane.
Hey, I only want to manage the system over 2 cities:
Chicago
W.D.C.
I get to decide what activity gets tracked.
Good thing the Ruling Elite cannot commit crimes.
I’ll bet is has an Amish filter. No need to track them.
Yup, I’m right. The small plane in that picture is not flying as high as 30km. Maybe 3km but that’s it.
There are also numerous satellites looking down 24/7 at every square inch of dry ground on the earth at ALL TIMES, see NSA.
Remember folks when I was a child in the 60’s we were reading newspapers in newspaper stands on the streets of Moscow from Space. They showed it on TV, I watched it.
Sounds like a little air to air action is necessary.
These are surely drones.
“There are also numerous satellites looking down 24/7 at every square inch of dry ground on the earth at ALL TIMES, see NSA.
Remember folks when I was a child in the 60’s we were reading newspapers in newspaper stands on the streets of Moscow from Space. They showed it on TV, I watched it.
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No, no, and no you didn’t.
If your photograph has been taken with a digital camera by the government ( driver’s license, passport, military or other ID), your visage has been defined by thousands of distinct digital points or bytes. The day will soon come that as you are photographed knowingly and unknowingly as you go about your daily business, (banks, ATM machines, surveillance cameras), it will be very easy for an interested party in government to identify where you have been and possibly where you are. A supercomputer with the right search program will quickly find you.
30 kilometers?? Not with the light aircraft pictured in the article. That is higher than the flight ceiling of the U2.
This is evil.
First 30 KM sounds a little high: 18.6M or about 100,000 feet.
Second, does it ever get cloudy or foggy over the city?
Thanks for saving me the time calculate how high 30 k’s is.
Another bs article.
Satellites are probably doing this now and have been.
And we wonder why the government is driving the country folk into the cities.
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