《衛(wèi)報》表示,,氣球可能攜帶內(nèi)華達(dá)山脈公司先進(jìn)的“戈爾貢凝視”視頻捕捉系統(tǒng),,該系統(tǒng)已經(jīng)在美國軍用無人機(jī)上使用。在阿富汗,,五角大樓還在監(jiān)視飛船上使用“戈爾貢凝視”,。它由9個攝像機(jī)組成,可以記錄全景圖像,,使操作者能夠同時捕捉整個城市的活動。
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不過,,這些測試已經(jīng)引起了民權(quán)活動人士的擔(dān)憂,,他們認(rèn)為,監(jiān)控行動必然會收集大量有關(guān)公民日常生活的數(shù)據(jù),。
“We do not think that American cities should be subject to wide-area surveillance in which every vehicle could be tracked wherever they go,,” Jay Stanley, a policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union,, told the Guardian,。 “Even in tests, they’re still collecting a lot of data on Americans: who’s driving to the union house,, the church,, the mosque, the Alzheimer’s clinic,?!?/p>
美國公民自由聯(lián)盟政策分析師杰伊?斯坦利向《衛(wèi)報》表示:“我們認(rèn)為,美國城市不應(yīng)受到廣域監(jiān)控,,在這種監(jiān)控下,,每輛車,無論走到哪里,,都可以被追蹤,。即使處于測試階段,他們?nèi)栽谑占罅棵绹说臄?shù)據(jù):誰正開著車去學(xué)生會所,、教堂,、清真寺、阿爾茨海默癥診所,?!?/p>
We should not go down the road of allowing this to be used in the United States and it’s disturbing to hear that these tests are being carried out, by the military no less,。
我們不應(yīng)該讓這種東西在美國使用,,聽到這些試驗(yàn)是由軍方進(jìn)行的,真令人不安,。
American whistleblower and former surveillance contractor Edward Snowden,, who in 2013 leaked a massive cache of material illicitly obtained from the National Security Agency (NSA), was also critical of the tests,。