Posts tagged "big brother"
If you hate red-light cameras, you’ll really hate speeding ticket robots | Ars Technica
You cannot escape the long mechanical arm of the law.
“We’re going into a different world, unchartered. And, like it or not, what people can do or governments can do is different, and you can to some extent control, but you can’t keep the tides from coming in. We’re going to have more visibility and less privacy … it’s not a question of whether I think it’s good or bad. I just don’t see how you could stop that because we’re going to have them.”
NYC Mayor Bloomberg on the inevitable drone uprising
(via WOR 710)
“We don’t believe that there are actually any federal statutes that would provide limits on drone surveillance in the United States. The privacy laws that do exist are very targeted [and] don’t encompass the type of surveillance that drones are able to conduct.”
Amie Stepanovich, director of the Domestic Surveillance Project (via CNET News)
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The teaser for Sony’s reboot of RoboCop is looking a little too real, if you know what I mean.
(h/t motherfuckinscifi)
Skynet by any other name can surveil just as well.
But what are the architectural possibilities for tethered sky masts and other instant cities made from semi-autonomous drone infrastructure?
