Crime-fighting surveillance planes provoke privacy controversy 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.
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 05:56:58 +0000
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