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I live in Baltimore, and recognized this as the controversial "spy plane" here. But I don't recall this story; anyone have or can find the details (like name of

I live in Baltimore, and recognized this as the controversial "spy plane" here. But I don't recall this story; anyone have or can find the details (like name of organizer)? I suppose I could get the book and look for it! > In one understated episode, he reveals that — after the Baltimore project was exposed — the owner of the company that built and deployed the WAMI system there had “personally” provided gifts to a community organizer. The organizer was working to convince Baltimore residents that a sky-borne Big Brother might be in their interests.

adolph 6y ago
Here is a Radiolab episode about an early version of it deployed to Dayton, Ohio. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/eye-sky https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/eye-s... Additional coverage: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-surveillance/ https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-sur... https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-1022-keep-the-spy-plane-20201021-vsh6olniffachfwdldbwgf66my-story.html https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-1022-kee... https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/community/surveillance-planes-watch-over-baltimore-but-catch-few-criminals/ https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/community/surveill...