The podcast “Eye in the Sky” talks in detail about project Angelfire concocted by Dr Ross McNutt and his students. Project Angelfire is a persistent surveillance scheme wherein a plane equipped with a high resolution camera takes a photo of a city every second. The issue with such a powerful technology is that it is always vulnerable to abuse. Regardless of the purpose of its introduction, those in authority are bound to misuse the technology to spy on the daily lives of people and conglomerates will crave for this information for the most effective form of advertising yet. This project may also backfire as intelligent criminals can infiltrate the system to acquire data on their targets and commit crimes that may be seemingly impossible to crack.

This of course, isn’t to belittle the significance of implementing a security system like Angelfire. It offers many immediate solutions to current issues for the few latent problems it may cause. Also, the biggest concern the public had with the implementation of this technology was the breach of their privacy. The dispute of people’s right to their ‘privacy’, however seemingly convincing it may be, is in actuality a null argument. Even with today’s tools, government can, if they’re willing to, spy the movement of an individual through monitoring one’s credit card usage, internet access, mobile phone, public transport usage, ‘speed cameras’ installed at various junctions and the list goes on. Privacy is a term that is no longer relevant in the 21^st century and those who believe their daily lives are concealed from others ought to be disillusioned. So in effect, Angelfire will not be breaching people’s privacy any more than other technologies have been doing so far but instead will be offering a more effective solution to crime rates and traffic issues.