Police State develops: Feds & Cities deploy spy drones

[Don1]

... Mass, Indiscriminate Surveillance means...We're all suspects

Ohio Aerial Surveillance System Moving Forward Without Having to Wait For FAA Drone Rules


By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
APRIL 4, 2013 | 9:07 AM
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I wrote recently about ARGUS, the high-flying drone technology capable of capturing super-high-definition video of a 15-square mile area and automatically tracking all moving vehicles and people within that area. I pointed out that this makes possible our nightmare scenario for drones: wide-area mass surveillance and location tracking of entire cities and towns.

Now it appears that the city of Dayton Ohio is considering actually deploying a system that is in many respects similar to ARGUS—and although it shares many of the features that are causing so much concern over drones around the country, it is not being held back by the FAA and its well-founded safety concerns around drones.

The reason? The surveillance at issue is based on a manned aircraft rather than unmanned drones.

[Don1]

Baltimore....

Government Aircraft Fly Secret Surveillance Missions Over Several US Cities © Flickr/ madlag
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00:33 27.05.2015(updated 00:34 27.05.2015)

The US government has already faced heated criticism over its use of drones in the Middle East. But the airspace above Afghanistan and Yemen isn’t the only place inhabited by US surveillance aircraft. A new report suggests that the Department of Justice has dozens of airplanes and helicopters covertly patrolling the skies of American cities.

FBI Admits Using Surveillance Aircraft to Spy on Baltimore Protestors

In the wake of the Freddie Gray protests which erupted in Baltimore last month, Pete Cimbolic, an aviation enthusiast, began combing through city flight records. According to the Baltimore Sun, the first thing he noticed was a small Cessna 182 flying in unusually tight circles above the west side of the city, where much of the violence took place. He later noticed a larger jet following a similar flightpath, and a follow-up investigation by the Sun found that a third plane had hovered above the site of a clash between protesters and police.
These aircraft were – now admittedly – provided by the FBI for surveillance purposes.

[Mosiah]

They flew surveillance missions over Tivarli. Mi nuh see nuhbody bex!

[Don1]

Lol :-)