Wired reports: “A Silicon Valley startup is launching a fleet of imaging satellites that are cheap, small, and ultra-efficient,” giving us “up-to-the-minute snapshots of the planet.” DARPA already boasts “a 1.8-gigapixel camera that will be attached to unmanned drones to spot targets as small as six inches at an altitude of 20,000 feet.” The Supreme Court just made it easier for the police to collect DNA samples without a warrant. The FBI is building a biometric database which includes facial and voice recognition, and using drones for surveillance on U.S. soil; the Border Guard, which effectively claims jurisdiction over two-thirds of the US population, is rapidly scaling up its own drone fleet; and cameras on police cars are already busily vacuuming up data en masse for local law enforcement. techcrunch/2013/06/29/tomorrows-surveillance/
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 06:36:24 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015