Surveillance... Beware the Weather Blimps

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http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/28/ibm-will-acquire-the-weather-companys-digital-business/
According to IBM, the acquisition helps it to harness one of the
largest big data opportunities in the world ... The deal will combine
two big data platforms, IBM's cognitive and analytics business with
that of Weather ... The Weather Company has the fourth-most visited
mobile app in the U.S. and handles 26 billion inquiries to its
cloud-based services daily, generating about 4 GB of data per second
... including Weather's mobile and web properties, which analyze data
from ... over 40 million mobile phones

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/harford/aberdeen-havre-de-grace/bs-md-jlens-blimp-loose-20151028-story.html
JLENS, has become a fixture of the Baltimore skyline since the first
of the two blimps was launched over Middle River in December. When
aloft, the aircraft use sophisticated radar to see up to 340 miles in
any direction ... It can be used to track ... cars on land.
Authorities say the system is intended to watch for and direct fire on
... other threats. Privacy advocates, meanwhile, have expressed
concern about deploying such sophisticated surveillance technology
over the United States.