UAVs to be used for CCTV

[tntcoder]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/23/cctv-sky-police-plan-drones

Good or bad idea? Yet more privacy down the drain, hopefully they wont make mistakes like this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8419147.stm

For the amount of crimes CCTV actually solves, seems like a major waste of cash to me. That or an excuse for intelligence agency's to increase surveillance of their own citizens... surveillance state!

 

[V4NT0M]

Cool, just like in 24.

 

['Wes]

Looks like a bomb.

 

[antijoke]

Cool, just like in 24.

I thought exaclty the same thing.

What sort of cost would this incur and how good would they be?

 

[Mikoyan]

replace the manned helicopter = win from me

 

[Things change I've changed]

Why don't they just get it over with and shove a camera in my lavatory so they can surveillance my ass.

 

[cloudy]

20,000 foot? Hope they don't want to use them on a cloudy day...

 

[Deleted member 651465]

..and that officers have talked about selling the surveillance data to private companies

Hmmm not sure I'd want that.

I can live with the police hovering overhead, but not some marketing department who'd spam me with fitness leaflets if I put up a trampoline in the garden

 

[tntcoder]

Hmmm not sure I'd want that.

I can live with the police hovering overhead, but not some marketing department who'd spam me with fitness leaflets if I put up a trampoline in the garden

Exactly, combine that with things like facial recognition and it gets a bit scary.

 

[int]

Chances are they'd be used to replace the police helicopters in the air, so there's no real increase in coverage, just less people doing the work...

 

[Cosimo]

What sort of cost would this incur and how good would they be?

As if they know:

Senior officers have conceded there will be "large capital costs" involved in buying the drones, but argue this will be shared by various government agencies.

Good for looking at your wheelie bin:

Under a section entitled "Other routine tasks (Local Councils) – surveillance", another document states the drones could be used to combat "fly-posting, fly-tipping, abandoned vehicles, abnormal loads, waste management".

So we are yet to be told.

 

[Azagoth]

Minipax redux.

 

[Cosimo]

20,000 foot? Hope they don't want to use them on a cloudy day...

Or follow a hot persuit.

 

[Efour]

stinger missile or 30 rounds from a FMJ SCAR will bring it down

 

[maxilive]

ahem *UAV Online*

 

[mark66]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/23/cctv-sky-police-plan-drones

Good or bad idea? Yet more privacy down the drain, hopefully they wont make mistakes like this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8419147.stm

For the amount of crimes CCTV actually solves, seems like a major waste of cash to me. That or an excuse for intelligence agency's to increase surveillance of their own citizens... surveillance state!

Christ, this is getting beyond a joke! There is no turning back from this, each year it will just go on and on....1984 here we come

Reading some of the links on the Guardian's Surveillance site makes for some depressing reading.

 

[Kutter]

Then they will add hellfire missiles to them, once we have the full nazi state.

 

[lemzip]

enemy UAV online!

 

[ginandmilk]

np I've got my counter-UAV (they're blind!)

 

[Meridian]

Then they will add hellfire missiles to them, once we have the full nazi state.

If they use them on middle lane hoggers I won't be objecting.


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