The military’s covert agency DARPA is working on a space-based spy telescope that can hover in orbit to "take real-time images or live video of any spot on Earth." They want to launch satellites that can zoom in on anyone at any time or place and stream real-time video.

The Network World website quotes a DARPA memo as saying, "Today, aircraft are used for some imagery requirements. Because of the huge quantity of aircraft needed, and because aircraft do not fly high enough to see into denied territories, spacecraft are also used for imagery requirements."
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The concept of privacy may have become a thing of the past. Your cell phone is tracking you, there are spies on Facebook, streetlights are eavesdropping on us, and even the TOYS we play with are spying on us!

The newest military plan is to build mind-reading sensors that can forecast wars BEFORE they start (if we’d been able to peer into that apartment in Hamburg, Germany, when 9/11 was being planned, we could have avoided a national tragedy).
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America’s classified X-37B satellite, which went into orbit in March, 2011, is probably spying on China’s space station (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), Tiangong-1, which was launched in September, 2011, since its path is nearly identical to the Chinese craft–in other words, it’s following it around. China plans to send astronauts to the space station in 2012 (they will need bodies to scoop up that Helium III).
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If we could do this, we would be faced with the necessity of arresting and incarcerating technically "innocent" people, which would upend our entire constitution and body of laws, in the same way that torturing suspects at Guantanamo has.

This may be a possibility in the future. A secret Homeland Security document indicates that a controversial program designed to predict whether a person will commit a crime is already being tested on some members of the public. The program works on using algorithms (mathematical formulas), that include ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rates, to "detect cues indicative of mal-intent."
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