Eyes in the Sky

Street mounted cameras aren’t the only means of physical surveillance. The Baltimore Police have employed a private company to record a 32-mile radius chunk of the city by plane. Its creator describes it as “Google Earth with TiVo capacity.”

The program is similar to NSA data collection in that a vast amount of information is gathered, but they promise not to look unless they get a suspect later.

Further coverage by Bloomberg, RT, and the local Baltimore Sun.

Posted 8/25/16