DARPA contract shines light on real-time video spying initiatives
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Misc. Gadgets
Only the ignorant and the uninformed would assume that DARPA has never, ever dabbled in any kind of surveillance that wasn’t questionable on some level, but a recent contract awarded to Kitware gives us a better idea of just how deep the rabbit hole has gotten. The $6.7 million deal seeks to create a system whereby DARPA can “monitor live video feeds and search large volumes of archived video data for activities of interest,” with the point being to match up similar events from past and present in order to prevent an attack, foreshadow a certain event or discover some sort of terrorist trademark. As of now, we’re simply informed of the video spying in areas of Iraq and Afghanistan, but given that the capabilities are already here, it could be enacted wherever the government could place a camera-toting manned or unmanned aerial vehicle. Look up and give the friendly skies a wave, won’t you? Just don’t do anything “suspicious.”
[Via Slashdot, image courtesy of PointNiner]
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