The Military-Style Surveillance Technology Being Tested in American Cities
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/08/military-style-surveillance-air-often-legal/595063
In the eyes of the law, there’s no difference between a photo taken by a smartphone through an airplane window and one taken by an ultrapowerful camera in a helicopter hovering over your backyard. Say you’re on a commercial flight and you pass over a city. You pull out your phone and take a picture. Much of the area that you have photographed is private property, but have you violated anybody’s privacy ? You’d probably say no, and you’d be right. But what if, instead of your phone, you use a (...)
