There's an easy way to prevent abuse: require the data to be made available to the public in real time. It's not surveillance I object to, it's the coupling of

There's an easy way to prevent abuse: require the data to be made available to the public in real time. It's not surveillance I object to, it's the coupling of information asymmetry with unaccountability. Maybe when people start flying their own drones and the data gets aggregated into OpenStreetMap (or some similar project), there will be a decent motivation for transparency. After all, if the police forces are doing nothing wrong, what do they have to fear from continual public surveillance? ;)