Agreed. As I said I think the problem is one of persistent surveillance. This is only going to get worse as technology develops and it becomes possible for gove

Agreed. As I said I think the problem is one of persistent surveillance. This is only going to get worse as technology develops and it becomes possible for governments and police departments to deploy hundreds or thousands of insect-sized drones through our cities. That's why I think focusing on drones obscures the real issue and makes it more difficult to have the serious and very necessary debate about whether we want to live in societies where the state is able to track you persistently in any public space. We already have the beginnings of something similar in cities like London, where thousands of CCTV cameras are every bit as invasive of our privacy as a police drone flying overhead would be. In other words this battle against the police use of drones like the Predator could be 'won' and it would probably not make any difference to the police's ability to track you with video and audio surveillance.