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[ PRIVACY Forum ] The airborne panopticon: How plane-mounted cameras
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The airborne panopticon: How plane-mounted cameras watch entire cities
(Ars Technica): http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/07/a-tivo-for-crime-how-always-recording-airborne-cameras-watch-entire-cities/
Consider Compton, a city just south of downtown Los Angeles. In 2012,
PSS ran a nine-day test there under the authority of the Los Angeles
Sheriff's Departmentwithout notifying Compton city officials. When
news of the test was reported earlier this year by the Center for
Investigative Reporting and the Los Angeles Times, Compton's mayor was
upset, and the cops admitted they concealed the experiment because
citizens were sensitive about surveillance. "The system was kind of
kept confidential from everybody in the public," project supervisor,
Los Angeles County Sheriff Sgt. Doug Iketani, told the Center for
Investigative Reporting. "A lot of people do have a problem with the
eye in the sky, the Big Brother, so in order to mitigate any of those
kinds of complaints, we basically kept it pretty hush-hush."
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Translation: People are terrified of this stuff, so we didn't tell them
about it, so they wouldn't know. That's not "mitigating" -- it's hiding.
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