美國泄密者、前監(jiān)控承包商愛德華·斯諾登也對這些測試提出了批評,。2013年,,斯諾登泄露了大量從美國國家安全局非法獲得的材料。
“They always tell us the tools of mass surveillance are intended for use only against the faraway Other,; the foreign enemy,, the terrorist, the criminal,,” Snowden said in a tweet,。 “And then, just a few years later,, we realize precisely the same system secretly surrounds us at home,。”
“他們總是告訴我們,,大規(guī)模監(jiān)控的工具只針對遙遠的其他目標;外國敵人,,恐怖分子,,罪犯,”斯諾登在推特上說道,?!叭缓螅瑑H僅幾年之后,,我們就意識到,,同樣的系統(tǒng)恰恰也在我們身邊悄悄存在?!?/p>
▲Pentagon testing ‘spy balloons’ across Midwest for ‘persistent’ domestic surveillance (via RT)
愛荷華州住宅區(qū)(圖 via Alamy)
整合:Du Qiongfang
資料:The Guardian,, Newsweek,, RT
圖/題圖:AFP, Getty Images,, Alamy