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Spy Drones Take to the Sky in the UK
Novotny writes to tell us The Guardian is reporting that the UK's has launched a new breed of police 'spy drone'. Originally used in military applications, these drones are being put into use as a senior police officer warns the surveillance society in the UK is eroding civil liberties. In the UK, there are an estimated 4.2 million surveillance cameras already, and you are on average photographed 300 times a day going about your business. Is there any evidence to suggest that this increasingly Orwellian society is actually any safer?"
On the internet you see articles about photographer's rights and freedoms. The general advice is that you are free to take a picture of anything on publich property or even anything FROM public property. Why do people get so bent out of shape being photographed in public. You have no expectation of privacy in a public place. A Big Brother society would be one in which you are photographed by the government in PRIVATE places, which has never happened and there is no slippery slope leading that direction. Camera are just a tool to extend the range of limited police manpower. I don't see an issue.