Such technology is already being used in this way, and has been compared chillingly to tracking 'precrime'; there is a terrifying Radiolab episode on it:
Thats about Gorgon Stare and similar plane / blimp / drone based survillance.
Satellites orbit at an altitude several 100 times higher and are much less invasive. There are a lot of cool applications, like cartography, monitoring farmland, monitoring the icecaps, etc.
I care deeply about civil liberties, but I think this is not the droid we're looking for.
Satellites orbit at an altitude several 100 times higher and are much less invasive. There are a lot of cool applications, like cartography, monitoring farmland, monitoring the icecaps, etc.
I care deeply about civil liberties, but I think this is not the droid we're looking for.