Following the tragic and deadly terrorist bombings in Boston, lawmakers across the country are demanding more surveillance in our major cities. In an article posted by Keith Proctor on CNN Money, he talks about how citizens and lawmakers alike value their own personal safety over privacy, but, “…when you see someone maimed by bomb shrapnel, privacy concerns sound coldly abstract.”
Homeland Security, on the other hand, have drastically been cutting down on state grants that would enable more surveillance equipment to go up. Due to this, companies like Lockheed Martin are doing more with less by drastically improving surveillance technology, creating the “video analytic” system, which analyzes surveillance footage entirely by using artifical intelligence.
