Posted on 08/28/2016 10:22:50 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
Small planes outfitted with video cameras have been flying over Baltimore since January, capturing activity on the streets below and relaying the footage to police to help them catch criminals.
The public knew nothing about it until this week — when Bloomberg Businessweek ran a cover story about the trial program.
Airplane used to conduct wide area surveillance. Persistent Surveillance Systems The revelations triggered outrage from elected officials, defense lawyers and the American Civil Liberties Union, who said the program raised privacy concerns and could aggravate public distrust in a city that exploded in riots last year after the death of a man in police custody.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
With all the phone bugs, computer hacks, facial recognition, and ID checking (with the obvious omission of voting polls) Does anyone think "privacy" is not an extinct issue?
Sure got that right.
I’m sorry your post only got two comments. This is one of the biggest stories of the year. This article from Bloomberg let the cat out of the bag on a military project that has become commercial. This system can literally track you back in time on your movements within a city. One of the systems has zoom in as referenced in the article. I saw this system being researched for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan out of a hangar I worked in. I most certainly have a problem on this being used in our country. What gets me, The Air Force veteran released the code names of the project that he worked on and created a company that utilizes this technology after he left the Air Force. After being a defense contractor for many years I have to say there’s a whole lot of unanswered questions I have about this technology transfer (proprietary material) to his company as well as the original classification of the program.
Ping. Another way for the government to use military technology to spy on us?
Sure sounds racist to me/s
Most will skip right over this, but it’s huge. Between the known cameras, INTELSATs and this aerial program, SKYNET’s alive and doing well.
Another way for the government to use military technology to spy on us?
Check out article and comments.
Thanks, Mr. Robinson. Appreciate the ping.
Original article:
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-surveillance/
They address the tension between privacy and law enforcement.
As usual, legislation is far behind the technology.
I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
And I don’t need to see any more
To know that I can read your mind, I can read your mind - A Parsons
LOL...the article says ‘only criminals need to be concerned about this’ program.
If a person is outside in public, in plain sight (no pun intended), there is no expectation of privacy.
I agree. That’s one of the bad repercussions of the BLM folks acting out. They give the government claims to justify.
It’s all very creepy and 1984’ish.
Not sure if any of you recall when there was a huge Naval blimp that hovered over Interstate 95 in the the Baltimore area. The blimp was there on at least 2 different occassions for long periods of time.
Once in 2013:
Then in 2015:
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/10/have-you-seen-this-blimp/412897/
Then it broke loose and was found in Pennsylvania:
This new surveillance is different and concerning due to the secrecy tho.
Nobody likes the idea of their movements tracked and recorded. Plus, we have no idea if the technology can see inside your home or office. Yes - there are drones and cameras all over the place; not to mention people are constantly uploading videos. I think someone posted earlier on the thread that it was 1984’ish. The USA is not a military controlled country and using technology designed for use in war zones to ‘secretly’ monitor people in the U.S. seems to cross the line of inappropriate use. Some may say, ‘well if you’re not doing anything wrong, what does it matter?’ It does matter. This may be expected in North Korea (if they could afford this technology), but this is not NK.
“This is one of the biggest stories of the year. This article from Bloomberg let the cat out of the bag on a military project that has become commercial.”
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Quite correct.
All entirely consistent with Deep State objectives. The same Deep State that killed a president also created one...Barry Sotero said he wanted to create “civilian national security force” and more recently, federalize civilian police forces. There already is a de facto federalization of many police forces due to the corrupt and lawless DOJ enacting “consent decrees.” The military and civilian law enforcement are nearly one.
A literal weapon of war as you mentioned, deployed against the citizens of an entire city. They chose crime plagued Baltimore for a Beta because that gave them plausible “law enforcement” deniability. They plan to use it everywhere.
And just as intel gathered from the military systems was used to eliminate “HVTs,” the same will be done here - by the same people.”
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” Barack Hussein Obama, 7/2/2008They don’t call it a Civil Defense force, that would imply we need (or perhaps that we deserve) defense. The official name is National Civilian Community Corps.
I think of it as the NatCCC, or more simply, as the NatCs...
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