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The same line between wiretapping in the analog age and wiretapping now: impossible to use on a mass, routine, and suspicion-less basis.
by jivatmanx 13y ago
The same line between wiretapping in the analog age and wiretapping now: impossible to use on a mass, routine, and suspicion-less basis.
- tptacek 13y agoIs that what happened? It doesn't sound like it is.
- fragsworth 13y agoThis is true - drones become as big of a problem as wiretapping, once they're mass-produced and flying all over the place. They could conceivably track everyone's movements. However, at the moment, this is overly expensive and kind of far-fetched, so most people aren't aware of the long-term implications. 30-40 years from now, though?
- jurassic 13y ago> mass, routine, and suspicion-less basis. That is not at all how drones are being used according to this article. Until then, plant some trees in your yard and keep calm. There are enough real transgressions going on that we don't need to whip ourselves into a frenzy over hyped stories like this one.
- jivatmanx 13y agoIt's easier to prevent it from getting there than it is to stop it once it has. It's more economical to expend the effort now than wait. If drones are physically visible I worry that an "implied consent" will develop and the issue becomes unwinnable.
- anologwintermut 13y agoSo the line is in fact one of scale? I agree, if the FBI had anything even remotely close to pervasive surveillance, we'd have a problem. But we'd have a problem no matter how they did it. The article says they used drones maybe once a year. That's probably less than the LAPD uses one of their helicopter in a week.