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August 25, 2016

Report: Baltimore Police Are Secretly Surveilling City from Above
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A new investigation by Bloomberg Businessweek has revealed police in
Baltimore have been secretly testing an aerial surveillance system that
records the movements and actions of Baltimore residents in real time
from a low-flying plane. The technology has been adapted from the U.S.
military's surveillance programs aimed at detecting roadside bombs in
Iraq. The plane is equipped with multiple cameras that can record
30-square-mile swaths of the city at a time. The plane is the creation
of the private company Persistent Surveillance Systems. The project is
bankrolled by John Arnold, a former Enron trader and hedge funder. The
plane has been circling above Baltimore since January, without the
public ever being notified.


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