What are the limits to police surveillance of those suspected of no crime? A federal appeals court is set to weigh in on that question next month as it considers the constitutionality of an aerial surveillance pilot program conducted last year over Baltimore.Â
From May through October last year, the Aerial Investigation Research program deployed an airplane equipped with high-resolution, wide-angle cameras to capture footage of 32 square miles of the city. Software pairs this footage with data from ground-based security cameras, license-plate readers, and gunfire detectors to monitor peopleâs movements. Â
Why We Wrote This
Aerial surveillance is nothing new, and neither are terrestrial cameras. But when Big Data stitches their feeds together and analyses them, it can reveal more than people might expect.
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