DHS Wants to Spy on 4 Square Miles at Once
For the “big privacy issues in the incubator” folder… .
(WIRED) “ The Department of Homeland Security is interested in a camera package that can peek in on almost four square miles of (constitutionally protected) American territory for long, long stretches of time.
“Homeland Security doesn’t have a particular system in mind. Right now, it’s just soliciting “industry feedback” on what a formal call for such a “Wide Area Surveillance System” might look like. But it’s the latest indication of how powerful military surveillance technology, developed to find foreign insurgents and terrorists, is migrating to the home front.”
How big an area are we talking? Below is just under 6 square kilometers of downtown Chicago. (DHS wants to see between 5 and 10).
