Nearly two years since the Boston Marathon bombings, NPR reports on surveillance cameras placed around the city to protect against new attacks. The high-definition cameras are linked to a company network, and live feeds are viewed remotely by police. The zoom on the cameras is so powerful it could likely decipher whether a Red Sox pitcher threw a ball or strike in Fenway Park. The American Civil Liberties Union’s Kade Crockford said big events do not “trigger privacy concerns,” but day-to-day capabilities do. The installations of these cameras “enable law enforcement to track individual people from the moment we leave our homes … seeing basically everywhere we went and everything that we did.”
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