Bard’s Arthur Holland Michel ’13 Weighs In on Pentagon’s Mass Deployment of Surveillance Balloons across Midwest
“What this new technology proposes is to watch everything at once,” says Michel. “Sometimes it’s referred to as ‘combat TiVo’ because when an event happens somewhere in the surveilled area, you can potentially rewind the tape to see exactly what occurred, and rewind even further to see who was involved and where they came from.” The experimental high-altitude balloons promise a cheap monitoring platform that could follow multiple vehicles for extended periods. They are also subject to fewer restrictions and regulations than drones, raising privacy concerns.
Post Date: 08-05-2019
Post Date: 08-05-2019