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DARPA Contract Hints At Real-Time Video Spying

Posted October 20, 2008 9:24 AM

From Slashdot:

The Washington Post has a story picking apart a DARPA contract document to assert that advanced video spying from the sky is on the way. The contract in question was awarded last month and involves indexing video feeds and matching feeds against stored footage. The example given is for an analyst to ask for an alert whenever any real-time Predator feed from Iraq shows a vehicle making a U-turn.

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11/08/2008 6:15 AM

Video spying from the sky is on the way??

Ever since the spy satellites have been in orbit there is very little that is unseen.

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