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A US company has developed a way to monitor entire neighbourhoods, using a technology originally developed for the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But while police forces are excited by the prospect of getting access to the tech, privacy campaigners see it as a threat to citizens' constitutional rights.
Bang. A shot is fired and someone has been murdered. A victim is found, the police alerted, but the perpetrator has vanished - without being seen.
Such killings happen almost every day in the US - and when no witnesses come forward, it can be hard and very costly to convict the perpetrators.
Now, one company says it has an answer.
By flying a special manned plane over a city, Persistent Surveillance Systems (PSS) says it is able to view and record everything that is happening on the ground across a 25-mile (40km) area.
Rigged with 12 high-resolution cameras, a spliced together picture of a sort of "live Google Earth" map is beamed down from the aircraft to analysts.
As if the NSA and GCHQ aren't enough we now have live camera feeds over our homes. How Orwellian does this sound.
I am sure as the technology becomes ever better they will eventually be able to track people and add facial recognition to this type of technology and possible use unmanned Government drones to patrol areas. This has the potential to give ever greater powers to Government Agencies, as if it wasn't enough that our phones, emails and personal lives are already highly scrutinised.
The technology will get better, much better, and will be used. You can't stop the spread and use (& theft) of new technology whether it be surveillance, weapons, or other technology.
As if the NSA and GCHQ aren't enough we now have live camera feeds over our homes. How Orwellian does this sound.
I am sure as the technology becomes ever better they will eventually be able to track people and add facial recognition to this type of technology and possible use unmanned Government drones to patrol areas. This has the potential to give ever greater powers to Government Agencies, as if it wasn't enough that our phones, emails and personal lives are already highly scrutinised.
However, these uses of FirstNet—biometric data gathering, license plate readers and high speed information sharing—are only the things that we are sure are going to be implemented. They are explicit aims of the project, as laid out in presentations and other documents.
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Although those behind FirstNet are currently getting individual states ready for consultation periods on the project, it is already being tested in various locales, including California, North Carolina, New Mexico, Colorado, Mississippi and New Jersey. When POLITICO tried to get documents relating to FirstNet's development from one of these areas' respective Sheriff Departments, the Department of Justice—in an unusual move—stepped in, and stopped any details being released by them. “For some reason, the DOJ is really, really opposed to the public having access to timely and accurate information about how this thing is actually being rolled out,” Kade continued.
Totally Agree it's all becoming a bit sinister with new spying technology and indeed biometric data gathering.
I wonder how long until the Anglo-Saxon nations morph into a Chinese style surveillance state where for communications are monitored in real-time instead of roving in the US.
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