• Corvidae@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    It used to be that airplanes had to keep 1000 feet of altitude over residential areas. A drone with its camera can come right up to your front door? Fly over your home, take pictures of your yard?

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      4 hours ago

      Pilot here: It’s interesting that you specify “airplanes” because that is specifically who those minimum altitude requirements apply to. The law (FAR 91.119) makes specific exceptions for helicopters.

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        7 hours ago

        Amazon is more clever than that; it’s why they bought Ring 10 years ago. They can throw their own camera and network into their drones.

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        9 hours ago

        That’s what all the data centers are for. Every sensor in the world will be wired into the hydra; funneling all its data into mass surveillance algorithms so the fascist oligarchs can determine who is a naughty antifascist, and who is a nice brainwashed pawn or pedophile. Those who are naughty will have these systems weaponised against them. They will lose employment. They will be continuously harassed by law enforcement. They will be blacklisted by grocery stores and other vital services. Eventually, they will meet their fate with the data-center controlled, fully-autonomous killbots.