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Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance

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Re: Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance

#11
And the amazing thing is that DJI was the ones lambasted for their shitty security practices.

But here we are, with Skydio users openly using public sharing links to their drone feeds 24x7x365 apparently.

Sounds like another vendor needs to get added to the Covered List, methinks, but the lobbyists won't let that one fly.

Re: Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance

#12

Sad to see. Here in Europe it's definitely not any better. Despite the GDPR’s safeguards, tech surveillance is set to become one of the defining civil liberties battlegrounds in across the World. Even with the EU AI act, the people of europe are significantly at risk.

Wait until you find out what the EU want/have asked the GAM trio of big tech corps to do to your phone and private messaging platforms. (Coincidentally they suddenly don't think so big an anti competition problem exists anymore).

Are you referring to Chat Control 2.0 which has repeatedly failed to pass the Parliament and is illegal to implement today?

Or to the requirement for RCS for which certificates are only issued to trusted parties?

Re: Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance

#13
post #11

And the amazing thing is that DJI was the ones lambasted for their shitty security practices. But here we are, with Skydio users openly using public sharing links to their drone feeds 24x7x365 apparently. Sounds like another vendor needs to get added to the Covered List, methinks, but the lobbyists won't let that one fly.

Or rather, lobbyists will let it fly as long as it's got a camera.

Re: Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance

#14

Helicopters already exist, and so do consumer drones - so why is this an issue?

Scale. The possibility of surveillance was far less worrying when three police officers had to tail you, because they'd only expend that effort when they were pretty sure you'd done a crime.

Re: Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance

#16

I remember reading this excellent article on Bloomberg about a guy who started a company that uses Cessna's with high-quality cameras, and they fly over an area for hours, and then use that footage to rollback crimes. They filmed everything. There's a video if you can find it where the man shows footage they took of a city in Mexico, where a murder occurred, and how they were able to roll back time and see the murder…

Drones are cheap & reliable. Vs. blimps, balloons, and such have repeatedly proven themselves quite fragile.

Re: Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance

#17
post #11

And the amazing thing is that DJI was the ones lambasted for their shitty security practices. But here we are, with Skydio users openly using public sharing links to their drone feeds 24x7x365 apparently. Sounds like another vendor needs to get added to the Covered List, methinks, but the lobbyists won't let that one fly.

The only thing insecure was the market position of the domestic competition.

Re: Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance

#19
post #8

With mass drone surveillance and online safety acts, we will finally be able to keep our children truly safe for the small cost of privacy.

To balance it, the police need to be extremely accountable, but so far they get away with murder pretty easily...so...

Re: Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance

#20
post #5

It's nice to see SFPD taking car break-ins seriously.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"

Is it essential liberty to be able to run around doing crime without being surveiled?
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