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美国防部测试高空“间谍”气球 斯诺登预言成真(3)

《卫报》表示,气球可能携带内华达山脉公司先进的“戈尔贡凝视”视频捕捉系统,该系统已经在美国军用无人机上使用。在阿富汗,五角大楼还在监视飞船上使用“戈尔贡凝视”。它由9个摄像机组成,可以记录全景图像,使操作者能够同时捕捉整个城市的活动。

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不过,这些测试已经引起了民权活动人士的担忧,他们认为,监控行动必然会收集大量有关公民日常生活的数据。

“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。”

美国公民自由联盟政策分析师杰伊•斯坦利向《卫报》表示:“我们认为,美国城市不应受到广域监控,在这种监控下,每辆车,无论走到哪里,都可以被追踪。即使处于测试阶段,他们仍在收集大量美国人的数据:谁正开着车去学生会所、教堂、清真寺、阿尔茨海默症诊所。”

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。

我们不应该让这种东西在美国使用,听到这些试验是由军方进行的,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。

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