The Dallas Police Department is under intense scrutiny after a security breach allowed over 600 hours of aerial surveillance video to be published on a privacy activist website – footage from helicopters that quickly led many suspicious observers turn their gazes toward drones.

The transparency activist group Distributed Denial of Secrets uploaded what is listed as 1.9 terabytes of aerial surveillance video on Friday. The site describes the content as “over 600 hours of aerial surveillance footage taken by police helicopters in and around Dallas, TX and Atlanta, GA” using onboard tech Distributed Denial of Secrets has called “military-grade.” Yet while the leaked videos with software-generated data enhancement were described as taken by police choppers, the wary looks those generated were immediately shifted drones.

“Police drones have gotten a lot of attention lately, because they represent a new generation of aerial vehicles capable of…

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Source: dronedj.com