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Well, a bit more googling ( https://www.google.com/search?q=police+drone+afghanistan+rewind https://www.google.com/search?q=police+drone+afghanistan+rew... ) go

Well, a bit more googling ( https://www.google.com/search?q=police+drone+afghanistan+rewind https://www.google.com/search?q=police+drone+afghanistan+rew... ) got me just 2 relevant hits. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/04/sheriffs-deputy-compares-drone-surveillance-of-compton-to-big-brother/360954/ https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/04/sheriff... https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1249&context=uclr https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1... (search for "rewind") I'd rather think it's because Google sucks now, and those keywords just bring up too many similar articles, but my metaphorical tinfoil hat is my hands.

lbayes 4y ago
Nice job! Your tips got me to this one, where it more clearly spells out the "rewind" capability. I think the problem was that the tech was attached to a low-flying, piloted plane, not drones. https://www.csoonline.com/article/2226742/record-and-rewind--cops-quietly-test-aerial-surveillance-to-track-crime.html https://www.csoonline.com/article/2226742/record-and-rewind-... Whew! It feels better to set my tinfoil hat down on the table next to me...
- filoeleven 4y ago
  There was a website shown on HN a few years ago that used AI and plane transponder data to find circling planes which were presumably doing this kind of surveillance over American cities. It might have used further parameters to narrow it down, e.g. “over a city, circling for >3 hours” to rule out planes waiting to land. I thought it was named something simple like “plane-circles.com” but I’m not having any luck finding it again. See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS Edit: found it. Should have limited the search to HN from the start. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24188661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24188661

lbayes 4y ago

Nice job! Your tips got me to this one, where it more clearly spells out the "rewind" capability. I think the problem was that the tech was attached to a low-flying, piloted plane, not drones. https://www.csoonline.com/article/2226742/record-and-rewind--cops-quietly-test-aerial-surveillance-to-track-crime.html https://www.csoonline.com/article/2226742/record-and-rewind-... Whew! It feels better to set my tinfoil hat down on the table next to me...

filoeleven 4y ago
There was a website shown on HN a few years ago that used AI and plane transponder data to find circling planes which were presumably doing this kind of surveillance over American cities. It might have used further parameters to narrow it down, e.g. “over a city, circling for >3 hours” to rule out planes waiting to land. I thought it was named something simple like “plane-circles.com” but I’m not having any luck finding it again. See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS Edit: found it. Should have limited the search to HN from the start. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24188661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24188661