Bitter Ashes
24th January 2010, 17:40
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/23/cctv-sky-police-plan-drones
What's wrong and what's illegal are rarely one and the same. Even if you do believe that the goverment acts solely in your best intrests (nieve), then maybe you should worry more about what these things do in Afghanistan right now. They're fitted with missiles which are launched by a human operator by remote. If the signal is lost though, then the AI kicks in and they literaly go berserk shooting at anything that moves. I'm not suggesting that the Labour, or Tory goverment would load these things with high explosives, but I can easily imagine them loading it with tear gas for crowd control and them gassing whole cities by accident. Tear gas will maim and kill you if you can't get away from it.
The final insult is that all the spy footage is to be sold to private companies. Pardon me, but my employers are already spying on what I do on Facebook and giving me disiplinary hearings for it. That's bad enough. I don't want them following me everywhere else too.
What's wrong and what's illegal are rarely one and the same. Even if you do believe that the goverment acts solely in your best intrests (nieve), then maybe you should worry more about what these things do in Afghanistan right now. They're fitted with missiles which are launched by a human operator by remote. If the signal is lost though, then the AI kicks in and they literaly go berserk shooting at anything that moves. I'm not suggesting that the Labour, or Tory goverment would load these things with high explosives, but I can easily imagine them loading it with tear gas for crowd control and them gassing whole cities by accident. Tear gas will maim and kill you if you can't get away from it.
The final insult is that all the spy footage is to be sold to private companies. Pardon me, but my employers are already spying on what I do on Facebook and giving me disiplinary hearings for it. That's bad enough. I don't want them following me everywhere else too.