army colonel douglas macgregor. well better watch what you do because big brother could be watching you cities across the country are installing high tech street lights that watch you and even talk back to keep you in line telling people to leave the area or pick up their letter now opponents of this technology say it's all of the name of safety and security but is this big brother on steroids artie's honest aasia churkin explores. watched observed surveillance in everyday reality for americans i'd be interested to see any kind of stuff from statistics on what crimes are actually being pro prevented and how measurably we're actually any safer than we than we we were before we had cameras on every street corner. the windy city of chicago is a record holder of security cameras in the us a tens of thousands we will put up with anything and we have people putting chips into their dogs and cats to see if they're lost people talk about doing it to their kids and you know what we're living in a surveillance state does a li

army colonel douglas macgregor welcome to the show douglas so would you say that there is a. the global rush to for countries to create drones absolutely without question the unmanned aircraft industry is boomed in the united states is going to boom internationally it's a critical countermeasure frankly speaking if you're dealing with us and that's why you see so many nations that have from time to time not had the best relations with us invest heavily in them the good news for the united states is that the principal competitors the chinese and the russians have turned out to have enormous difficulty reverse engineering our work so everyone is a long distance behind the united states in terms of its capabilities as you pointed out so well this one is the first one that first drawn out of venice wella that they just unveiled so can we expect more from them in other countries in the near future is going to take a while for them to catch on i think it's caught on it's question is technology how much of it can they get their hands on and how rapidly can they develop and field the