Honeywell To Sell Miami-Dade Police a Surveillance Drone

AHuxley writes "The Miami-Dade Police Department recently finalized a deal to buy a 20-pound drone from defense firm Honeywell. The drone can fly for 40 minutes, reach heights of 10,500 feet and cruise in the air at 46 miles an hour. As the Miami-Dade Police Department has recently made a lot of budget cuts, the funding may have come from a federal grant. An eye in the sky like over Iraq and Afghanistan may soon be looking down over South Florida 'to keep people safe.' Honeywell has applied to the FAA for clearance to fly the drone in urban areas."

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people worried about surveillance in public spaces

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come across to me as paranoid. look: cameras in public spaces is just pretty much reality now, and you just need to deal with it, and accept it

i can hear the howls about orwell already

but its NOT ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT. its not about the power of the state. really, its not. if you took away every government camera in existence, there are still PRIVATE cameras everywhere, on every cellphone. in fact, the greatest use of cameras in public spaces is to FIGHT the government. ever hear of rodney king? if the police abuse you, PRIVATE cameras are right there, recording the abuse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan

in other words, cameras in public are a double edged sword, equally pointed against the power of the state as it is used to enforce the power of the state. in other words, if you think the idea of cameras in public spaces carries with it the only consequence of the growth of the power of the state, then this is a prejudicial assumption on your part and you are in fact clearly factually wrong

the issue is not the state, its not big brother, its simply THE MARCH OF TECHNOLOGY that you are fighting against, and its a fight you can't win

if you go in public, you probably will be recorded. you don't have to like that fact, but that's pretty much the facts of your existence now. so you are going to have to make peace with cameras in public and just get used it. welcome to reality, now deal with it, and stop wasting your effort on a fight you can't win

the game is over, the subject is closed. move on