Mayor Bloomberg Predicts Drone Surveillance In New York's Future

Hello,

I have more information about drones for private use than about use of drones by public services. However I think that drones use should be allowed for each specific task by the trio: drone user, judge and representative of the exposed. Only very special security objectives should be excluded from this pattern.

I don't think anyone realizes how many people will be using these little guys. The laws around tampering with them and using them to do illegal things will be the biggest cost of drones. Everyone from perverts, jealous wives/husbands, to drug dealers will be using these little guys. They are cheap, extremeley easy to use and the movie industry will give us the software to fly them on preset paths. The military and construction industry will use them with swarm technology and they will get smaller and smaller.

Privacy is about to be a joke. Especially with infrared involved. I personally cant wait to have to drones shooting down and sabotaging other drones. Due to this possibility, they will be made cheap.

Kids, those video game skills your parents keep thinking arent going to ever be useful, are going to be useful. :)

"Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. There is no spoon."

Watch how exclusions are made for the connected Bloomly' will have a different view after someone flies one over his estate.
What a respose if you have nothing to hide you won't mind, is in essense what he said with the well this is just another camera, not how in intrudes into privacy.
A NYT article notes: Mr. Bloomberg, who owns a waterfront estate here(Bermuda), has walled off his life in Bermuda from voters in New York, arguing it is none of their business. He steadfastly refuses to say when he is on the island, and to blindfold prying eyes, he has blocked aviation Web sites from making public the movements of his private planes.

It may be just another camera, but if it's going to be used for surveillance of an individual by law enforcement, then it should require a warrant, just like any other search and seizure.

I see people buying more shotguns...

Good point, wait until the Poperazzi learn how to use these! Lol.

"Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. There is no spoon."

@nightling as disconcerting as drones are, they aren't inherently search and seizure. A warrant isn't required for a cop to sit outside your house and watch what you're doing all day. If the drone is used to fly through a window, sure you need a warrant, but currently all they're saying is drones can be used for surveillance when it's cheaper, easier, quicker and ultimately more reliable to use a flying robot than grounded, error-prone human eyes.

Honestly, for all the Big Brother things going on in this country, surveillance drones are pretty low on my list of scariness. In the years to come cheap drones are going to be used for everything. We all laughed last year when the article about fast food delivery drones popped up, but that will indeed be a likely use down the road. UPS man? He'll be a drone if the costs work out. Police chases? Why have 5 cruisers chase a guy through the street when you can get a drone or two to follow him. While the potential for abuse is greater when a camera can fly, it is still true that, when used properly, a surveillance drone is pretty much just any other surveillance camera that happens to be mounted on wings instead of a 20-foot pole.

Bloomberg would have been an asset to Stalin. He thought the people should be controlled by the government too.

The Supreme Court has just issued a finding, that it is unconstitutional for a sensory 'device' -specifically, that word-to be used to gather information from a citizen's home. The ruling came down over a drug dog's indication being used as Reasonable Arousal of Suspicion, but did state specifically that the dog was fulfilling a role as a 'sensory device'. The finding supposedly reinforces our 4th Amendment right-but we'll see. Government is already inside our homes today without being invited. Made a private phone call lately? Wanna bet on whether it was private? So much for Unreasonable Search.