Eyes in the sky : the secret rise of Gorgon Stare and how it will watch us all /

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Author / Creator:Michel, Arthur Holland, author.
Imprint:Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
©2019
Description:xvii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:Intelligence service -- United States.
Aerial surveillance -- United States.
Electronic surveillance -- United States.
Civil rights -- United States.
Privacy, Right of -- United States.
Aerial surveillance.
Civil rights.
Electronic surveillance.
Intelligence service.
Privacy, Right of.
United States.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11925765
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Varying Form of Title:Secret rise of Gorgon Stare and how it will watch us all
ISBN:9780544972001
0544972007
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (page [238]-300) and index.
Summary:The fascinating history and unnerving future of high-tech aerial surveillance, from its secret military origins to its growing use on American citizens.
"Eyes in the Sky is the authoritative account of how the Pentagon developed a godlike surveillance device that will someday be used over every major city on the planet. This new technology--and its most powerful iteration to date, Gorgon Stare--can track thousands of moving targets at once over vast areas, following you backward and forward in time to expose where you came from and where you're going. With a little help from AI, it will even predict crimes before they happen. In wartime, this formidable tool has saved countless lives; it can be similarly transformative in peacetime. But if misused, it could become the most nightmarish visual surveillance system ever created. Drawing on extensive access within the agencies, labs, and companies that created Gorgon Stare and other weapons like it, [this book] reveals how a top-secret team of scientists devised an unprecedented way of watching everything, how the technology has already been deployed in American skies, and how we might still capitalize on its great promise while avoiding its potential perils."--Dust jacket.
Other form:Online version: Michel, Arthur Holland, author. Eyes in the sky Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019 9780544971660