Many government agencies use license plate readers to track drivers. Toll roads use electronic chips to keep track of cars, and bill their owners. People constantly are being tracked by where their cell phones ping towers.
But there’s a new threat to privacy coming, and experts say a satellite, expected to be launched in 2025, could zoom in on anyone, anywhere.
According to the Daily Mail, the satellite is being created by startup Albedo, and has the ability to zoom in on license plates from space.
Which, the report quotes privacy experts confirming, “will create a ‘big brother is always watching’ scenario.”
The report documents that the company has separate million-dollar contracts with the U.S. Air Force and the National Air and Space Intelligence Center to spy on “potential threats to U.S. national security.”
And while the company says there won’t be facial recognition software installed, it doesn’t mention imaging people, or protecting privacy.
Privacy experts are sounding alarms, the report said.
Jennifer Lynch, of the privacy-promoting Electronic Frontier Foundation, told the New York Times, “This is a giant camera in the sky for any government to use at any time without our knowledge. We should definitely be worried.”
The company’s tech is a “Very Low Earth Orbit satellite,” and company official Topher Hadda said the goal is eventually to have 24 spacecraft watching 24 hours a day.
Jonathan C. McDowell, a Harvard astrophysicist, told the Mail, “‘It’s taking us one step closer to a Big-Brother-is-watching kind of world.
It previously was illegal to create a satellite that could track an object of less than 30 centimeters, a standard that allowed for the ID of buildings and cars but not faces.
Rule changes, however, including those made by the Trump administration at the time, now make it permissible to identify objects down to 10 centimeters, the report said.
Further, these satellites are expected to orbit only 100 miles up.
The Mail said, “Haddad addressed concerns that the satellites would destroy people’s right to privacy in a public forum, writing that the company is ‘acutely aware of the privacy implications and potential for abuse/misuse,’ and expects it to be ‘an ongoing, evolving issue over time.'”
The company said it would monitor people who are allowed to use the tech “on a case-by-case basis.”
But in an interview with the New York Times, John Pike, of Global Security.org, said, “You’re going to start seeing people. You’re going to see more than dots.”
WND SPECIAL REPORT – “IT’S TRUMP VS. SWAMP PSYCHOPATHS”: From the Biden administration’s enthusiastic support for amputating body parts of troubled children, to its obsession with bringing as many millions of illegal aliens, terrorists and Chinese soldiers as possible into America, it is increasingly clear that many of this nation’s current leaders are, to put it plainly, stark raving mad.
Indeed, psychiatric experts are finally documenting how the symptom profiles of scary conditions like “Borderline Personality Disorder” and “Narcissistic Personality Disorder” PERFECTLY MATCH today’s top leaders.
One groundbreaking peer-reviewed study published in 2023 documents how left-wing extremism is closely associated with “psychopathic tendencies.” Likewise, retired psychiatrist Brad Lyles, M.D., explains how “one way of understanding the increasingly outlandish beliefs and behaviors of the left is through the lens of Borderline Personality Disorder.” And one of America’s top forensic psychiatrists, Lyle Rossiter, M.D., described Barack Obama’s mental state as “Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder.”
Consider a typical description of sociopathy: “Sociopaths are often well-liked because of their charm and high charisma, but they do not usually care about other people. They think mainly of themselves and often blame others for the things that they do. They have a complete disregard for rules and lie constantly. They seldom feel guilt or learn from punishments.” Remind you of anyone?
From Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to their presidential Cabinet – including Attorney General Merrick Garland, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra – all of these people “have a complete disregard for rules and lie constantly.”
But it’s not just Democrat leaders. Multiple surveys now show how rank-and-file Democrats are TWICE as likely to be diagnosed with a mental disorder as Republicans – from depression to bipolar disorder to schizophrenia to narcissistic personality disorder. All this and much more is stunningly laid out in the March edition of WND’s critically acclaimed Whistleblower magazine, “IT’S TRUMP VS. SWAMP PSYCHOPATHS.” Don’t miss it – you will see the whole political-cultural-spiritual war raging in the U.S.A. in a whole new light.
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