28th May 2007

Orwell didn’t speak about drones …

… but the Brits made quite a breakthrough in state-surveillance. You probably heard about those, but in case you didn’t, here are a couple of articles to catch up : in the Associated Press and in the BBC. Note that the BBC doesn’t show a picture of the drone, but of the army “version” of it.

As I mentionned before, UK is already quite good at surveilling people at the price of privacy. Police thought they didn’t have enough cameras yet, so they ordered those new drones, equipped with night vision cameras, “to monitor large crowds and to gather evidence from major incidents or areas blighted by anti-social behaviour“. Now we just have to wonder what means anti-social behaviour and we are in a enhanced Orwell system … C’mon Brits, don’t accept this ! burn those cameras, shoot these stupid flies ! and remember that nothing is more valuable than your own privacy !

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