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Late night dash up the M1 and there were Drones flying around the Leicester area, across the M1!
Were they Russian home?
Police?
Maybe Highways checking something? Our office it's next to a railway line/station and Network Rail use drones for track inspections now. Causes a bit of panic on the third floor. Every. ****ing. Time.
We had lots of police drones over our town last weekend.
Annual event called the Tar Barrels (look it up it's effin crazy!) 20k+ people crowding into a small Devon town.
Saw some really cool pictures from the drones. Defo the way forward if surveillance if your thing!
Not sure I'm very happy with the drone surveillance thing though. Its a balance between being easy and effective vs privacy. Drones are really quite invasive
Not sure I’m very happy with the drone surveillance thing though. Its a balance between being easy and effective vs privacy. Drones are really quite invasive
It is, but I it's a choice between public crowd safety, or catching a violent criminal, I'm happy if they catch a glimpse of me gardening with top off or whatever.
However much people on here like to bang on about privacy and GDPR, there exceptions for protecting the public good, and those organisations which have quite wide ranging surveillance powers, and I work for one, have to jump through internal hoops to justify it before it happens
Cheaper and quicker to deploy than a full-size aircraft and no more or less invasive I'd have thought??
Times today says the drone taxi prototypes are being developed around there.
Why don't they just upgrade the drones to birds?
What concerned us was how low they were flying, my passenger ducked.
and I work for one, have to jump through internal hoops to justify it before it happens
As long as there are hoops to jump through I'm happy. It's just that it seems standard practice at protests now to film and use drones. This is only good as long as you imagine the government is always on your side
It’s just that it seems standard practice at protests now to film and use drones. This is only good as long as you imagine the government is always on your side
You assume all those drones are working for the same team.
You assume all those drones are working for the same team.
Well, at least some of them will be on your side.....
Yeah my point being that they're cheap enough that unless one side invests in jammers then it's easy enough to level the playing field. I have no doubt there are people out there more than willing to watch the authorities.
That being the case I'm happy for both sides to coexist, it's a lot harder to smack a baton off a drone or tell them to delete footage when it's streamed to a remote server.
That film is chilling. One reason why I'm quite happy for battery tech to stay where it is.