The Multibillion-Dollar U.S. Spy Agency You Haven’t Heard of

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Suzanne Johnson <fuhn () pobox com>
> Subject: The Multibillion-Dollar U.S. Spy Agency You Haven’t Heard of
> Date: July 5, 2017 at 11:38:32 AM EDT
> To: "DAVID J. FARBER" <farber () gmail com>
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> In 2016, unbeknownst to many city officials, police in Baltimore began conducting 
> <https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-surveillance/> persistent aerial surveillance using a 
> system developed for military use in Iraq.
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> Few civilians have any idea how advanced these military eye-in-the-sky drones have become. Among them is ARGUS-IS, 
> the world’s highest-resolution camera with 1.8 billion pixels. Invisible from the ground at nearly four miles in the 
> air, it uses a technology known as “persistent stare” — the equivalent of 100 Predator drones peering down at a 
> medium-size city at once — to track everything that moves.
> With the capability to watch an area of 10 or even 15 square miles at a time, it would take just two drones hovering 
> over Manhattan to continuously observe and follow all outdoor human activity, night and day. It can zoom in on an 
> object as small as a stick of butter on a plate and store up to 1 million terabytes of data a day. That capacity 
> would allow analysts to look back in time over days, weeks, or months. Technology is in the works to enable drones to 
> remain aloft for years at a time.
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> http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/20/the-multibillion-dollar-u-s-spy-agency-you-havent-heard-of-trump/ 
> <http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/20/the-multibillion-dollar-u-s-spy-agency-you-havent-heard-of-trump/>




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