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Sounds great, although scary. Under the pretext of saving lives, governments may deploy drones to track and arrest undesirable people. I imagine videos like th
by hkai 8y ago
Sounds great, although scary. Under the pretext of saving lives, governments may deploy drones to track and arrest undesirable people.
I imagine videos like this will encourage broad support for drone surveillance.
- cm2187 8y agoYou mean illegal immigrants? I’d be surprised if DHS doesn’t already do this on the border with Maxico. In a similar spirit there was a recent Ted talk [1] where the guy was enthusiastic about doing image recognition on a global scale from satellite images. He argued it would allow things like tracking every ship in the world. This surveillance world is coming gradually from every direction, and like a frog, we will wake up in a water which temperature we may not like. [1] https://www.ted.com/talks/will_marshall_the_mission_to_create_a_searchable_database_of_earth_s_surface https://www.ted.com/talks/will_marshall_the_mission_to_creat...
- nradov 8y agoAlmost every civilian ship in the world is already tracked using AIS. Satellite surveillance helps to catch those few vessels who turn off their AIS transmitters to engage in criminal activity (piracy, illegal fishing, smuggling, violating trade sanctions).
- cm2187 8y agoI am sure they are very nasty and that law abiding citizens have nothing to fear from an orwelian surveillance!
- nradov 8y agoI'm not sure what you're trying to imply. It's critically important to know where large vessels are at all times for safety and collision avoidance if nothing else. This isn't Orwellian by any means.