Big Brother's next surveillance gadget

[venator]

First surveillance cameras, now military type eyes in the sky.

Draw your bedroom curtains, everyone...

http://www.newscienti...fter-law-shakeup.html

[DTCwordfan]

they have had the latter for years,venator,and even can model holographs.

[DTCwordfan]

should have seen some of the tricks that these folk had in their portfolio....

http://business.highb...phic-imaging-forddera

ostensibly for cutting the dev costs of cars....

[venator]

Sorry, dt, you've lost me - the link is to the unmanned camera drone story, and that they're likely to be approved for civilian use in the USA.

How long before every traffic warden has one?

[Toby570]

I wonder what the US Government has in mind for these little fellers..

[DTCwordfan]

the point is, venator, is that there is technology up there, being sats, drones, planes etc that can track us already and even allowing for some cloud cover and then model it into holographics and its principles to get an "on the ground" simulated look at what we are up to.

[ludwig]

Those quadrotor things are great.

DT - I always wear a hat made of tin foil. It'd the only way to keep them from reading your thoughts.

[DTCwordfan]

Lead foil works, ludwig!

[venator]

I see where you're coming from, dt - I know the technology's been around and used by the military, but the point I was making is that they're about to let civilians use it.

[DTCwordfan]

just like GPS - first used by the US tank corps so as they minimised shelling of their own units!

Inevitable I guess and something to keep the waste-of-space-politicians debating and legislating....

[DaisyNonna]

If anything exciting is going on in my flat, please wake me up and let me know. I never draw the curtains.

[anotheoldgit]

Taking into account that the Muslims had CCTV cameras removed from their areas, I wonder if they will allow these to surveil their areas?