Something I found out today...

[daniel1987]

Just been for security training for a job I'm about to start at Heathrow Aiport. This is probably already known about, but I decided to post anyway. The security officer who provided the training said that UK Intelligence Agencies have a satellite system like Google Earth, but far more powerful. He said the system is able to zoom in on people's back gardens and see in extreme detail. Talk about Big Brother!

[lightgiver]

Just been for security training for a job I'm about to start at Heathrow Aiport. This is probably already known about, but I decided to post anyway. The security officer who provided the training said that UK Intelligence Agencies have a satellite system like Google Earth, but far more powerful. He said the system is able to zoom in on people's back gardens and see in extreme detail. Talk about Big Brother!

hi daniel,its been going on for years;)

Project Echelon: Orbiting Big Brother?:
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/echelon_011121-1.html

http://psychomikeos.blogspot.com/2007/11/big-brother-in-sky.html

Big Brother Is Tracking You. Without a Warrant. - New York Times:

Forty-three years later, satellite imagery similar to that collected by the Central Intelligence Agency is available to anyone with a credit card. From detailed shots of India's nuclear sites, to high-resolution pictures of a neighbor's backyard, reconnaissance satellite images have become as easy to obtain as a novel from Amazon.com. In fact, much of them are free for the taking from the Internet.

Last week, in an effort to increase satellite intelligence coverage of high-priority targets, President Bush ordered spy agencies to begin buying as much imagery as possible from private companies. The reason was quality and quantity. The close-up resolution of today's commercial imaging satellites is comparable to that of the spy world, and their numbers are constantly growing.

But the high quality and wide availability of such imagery is also raising questions. For more than four decades, American intelligence has aimed its cameras almost exclusively on foreign targets. But now the lenses are also being trained on American citizens.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04E3DF153EF93BA25756C0A9659C8B 63

[marpat]

Just been for security training for a job I'm about to start at Heathrow Aiport. This is probably already known about, but I decided to post anyway. The security officer who provided the training said that UK Intelligence Agencies have a satellite system like Google Earth, but far more powerful. He said the system is able to zoom in on people's back gardens and see in extreme detail. Talk about Big Brother!

Cant see into your house though. Not really watching everything you do is it.

Its a bit rich that, you training to do a security job then moaning about big brother.

[lightgiver]

The next level:(

Plans for a massive database snooping on the entire population were condemned yesterday as a ‘step too far for the British way of life’.

In an Orwellian move, the Home Office is proposing to detail every phone call, e-mail, text message, internet search and online purchase in the fight against terrorism and other serious crime.

But the privacy watchdog, Information Commissioner Richard Thomas, warned that the public’s traditional freedoms were under grave threat from creeping state surveillance.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1035361/Big-Brother-database-recording-calls-texts-e-mails-ruin-British-way-life.html

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23414373-details/Big+Brother+Britain:+Government+and+councils+to+sp y+on+ALL+our+phones/article.do
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article3965033.ece
http://news.cnet.com/2010-1069-980325.html

and the guy(daniel) may need a job as good jobs are thin on the ground,and he is saying he was not aware of this technology,not rich,uninformed,like most folk.

TPTB are becoming obsessed with watching and tracking people and it is getting worse,and it is all for a reason,and not necessarily for our benefit.