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And police choppers are loud and annoying, while drones are presumably quiet. On the other hand, what if we scaled if up? It would be very useful for the polic

by hugh4 11y ago

And police choppers are loud and annoying, while drones are presumably quiet. On the other hand, what if we scaled if up? It would be very useful for the police to have a constant fleet of drones in the sky ready to swing their cameras around to focus on anything. Report of a mugging at fifth and D? Get visual on it in seconds. Which as a potential mugging victim I'm all for, but still, the idea of constant airborne surveillance gives me the heebie-jeebies. That said, this, along with many other potentially useful crime- fighting tools, is about to become technologically possible, and we're going to need rules about every new thing that comes along. Right now we have no useful framework for making rules, apart from seeing what people shout loudest about. Personal heebie-jeebies aren't a good guide to sensible decisionmaking.

pyre 11y ago
Also, the people making the decisions/laws (politicians) are usually the least likely to be directly affected by any of the downsides of the technology. E.g.: How many Congressmen / Congresswomen have been directly affected by the idiocy of the No Fly List?
rhino369 11y ago
>Which as a potential mugging victim I'm all for, but still, the idea of constant airborne surveillance gives me the heebie-jeebies. There are 220 million smartphones in America. How many of them are set up to send location data? 80-90%? Shit, Android reads through my texts/email and gives me directions to where I'm going to meet someone for dinner before I even ask for them. Privacy is dead.
- rmxt 11y ago
  Is the distinction between a private entity collecting semi-consented to location data, and the government/law enforcement collecting such data lost on you? I say "semi-" because I'd wager that less than 5% of people read and understand the implications of the TOS they click through. Your privacy might be dead, but don't think that everyone else's is as well.

by hugh4 11y ago

pyre 11y ago

Also, the people making the decisions/laws (politicians) are usually the least likely to be directly affected by any of the downsides of the technology. E.g.: How many Congressmen / Congresswomen have been directly affected by the idiocy of the No Fly List?

rhino369 11y ago

>Which as a potential mugging victim I'm all for, but still, the idea of constant airborne surveillance gives me the heebie-jeebies. There are 220 million smartphones in America. How many of them are set up to send location data? 80-90%? Shit, Android reads through my texts/email and gives me directions to where I'm going to meet someone for dinner before I even ask for them. Privacy is dead.

rmxt 11y ago
Is the distinction between a private entity collecting semi-consented to location data, and the government/law enforcement collecting such data lost on you? I say "semi-" because I'd wager that less than 5% of people read and understand the implications of the TOS they click through. Your privacy might be dead, but don't think that everyone else's is as well.