As Cities Curb Surveillance, Baltimore Police Took to the Air
▻https://www.wired.com/story/cities-curb-surveillance-baltimore-police-took-air/#intcid=_wired-bottom-recirc_b9b99c19-de31-4412-8816-a67c6a3308e7_text2vec1
In a program that overcame three court challenges this year, planes with high-tech cameras circled the city up to 40 hours a week. In August 2016, a Bloomberg report revealed a secret aerial surveillance program in Baltimore led by the city’s police department. Over eight months, planes equipped with cameras collected over 300 hours of footage, used by the police to investigate alleged crimes. Hardly anyone outside police department leadership and the vendor, Persistent Surveillance (...)
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