DARPA Developing 'Combat Zones That See'

t0rnt0pieces writes "DARPA is developing an urban surveillance system that would use computers and thousands of cameras to track, record and analyze the movement of every vehicle in a city. Officials claim that the project is designed to help the U.S. military protect troops and fight in cities overseas, but police, scientists and privacy experts say the technology could easily be adapted to spy on Americans. Combined with other technologies, such as software that scans databases of everyday transactions and personal records worldwide, the government would have a reasonably good idea of where everyone is most of the time. Read the news story and the contracting document."

Comments

Re:spy r us

[Rolo Tomasi]

Nah, it's a measure to control the population. The biggest danger to the U.S. government are the U.S. citizens. With the Army's latest craze of developing less-than-lethal and riot control technology, you can kinda guess where things are heading.

Re:The Real Question

[Blitzshlag]

What liberty would an action like this deprive us from?

How about the right to freedom from an oppressive government?

No kidding?

[floydigus]

experts say the technology could easily be adapted to spy on Americans

Because of their amazingly huge butts, no doubt.

Re:That sounds a bit strange to me

[Anonymous Coward]

Or the US could just leave the country they invaded. That'd stop the sniping, too.

Re:Relax, we won't abuse this technology on citize

[reallocate]

Typical moronic Slashdot post. Go back to playing with your toys and stop posting until you learn to think.