Inside San Diego’s metropolitan area, the second largest city, home
to some 275,000 residents, has made the history books. Chula Vista
hasn’t cured cancer or discovered perpetual energy; instead, their mark
on history will be a dark one as they become the first city in America
to be completely monitored by spy drones.
“On a per capita basis, they’re probably the most or one of the most
surveilled cities in the country,” said Brian Hofer, executive director
of the Oakland-based privacy advocacy group Secure Justice. “Pretty much
the minute you walk outside your front door and move about your daily
life, you’re going to be tagged and tracked by some law enforcement
agency, even though you’ve likely never been suspected of any
wrongdoing.”
Chula Vista’s drone program didn’t come to fruition overnight.
Instead, the Department of Homeland Security and other government
agencies coordinated with with Chinese drone manufacturers and
unscrupulous actors in Big Tech and have implemented the program over
the course of several years.
“The City of San Diego’s Homeland Security Department is
collaborating with more than 20 regional organizations to implement the
IPP. In addition to EDC, partners include: City of Chula Vista, Cape,
AirMap, Qualcomm, AT&T, California Governor’s Military Council,
California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development
(GoBiz), Uber, UC San Diego Health, Intel, GE Ventures, and others,” the
city announced in 2018.
In 2020, as fearful citizens begged the government for safety that
never came, they willingly accepted this egregious invasion of privacy.
The Free Thought Project reported on this problem in 2020
and since then it has gotten much worse. Just like the Chinese
authorities, police in California equipped the drones with speakers to
tell people what to do during the pandemic....<<<Read More>>>...
