Over 600 hours of aerial surveillance footage taken by police helicopters in and around Dallas, TX and Atlanta, GA.
The extensive footage reveals the capabilities of the "military-grade" technology behind police surveillance. It also highlights the voyeurism inherent in surveillance and how it often focuses on protected first amendment activities and people who have no idea they're being watched and who've done nothing to justify the intrusion of surveillance.
Research
- Extracting zooming shots from 600 hours of police helicopter surveillance footage (Sam Lavigne)
- Dallas city council leaders discussing potential data breach of Dallas police helicopter and drone video (CBS DFW)
- Leaked Dallas police helicopter surveillance footage raises privacy concerns (Dallas Observer)
- Activists leak 600 hours of mostly Dallas police helicopter footage after city’s 22 terabyte loss of criminal case data (Courthouse News)
- 1.8 TB of police helicopter surveillance footage leaks online (Wired)