{"id":70933,"date":"2020-06-04T15:16:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T19:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=70933"},"modified":"2020-06-04T15:18:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T19:18:15","slug":"the-slippery-slope-of-using-drones-especially-when-its-governments-doing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/06\/04\/the-slippery-slope-of-using-drones-especially-when-its-governments-doing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The slippery slope of using drones — especially when it’s governments doing it"},"content":{"rendered":"

From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nI can’t help but reflect on how slippery the slope is when we start talking about using drones — especially as sponsored and used by governments, including our government here in the U.S. <\/strong>Consider the following from The Future Institute.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

Eyes in the sky
\n<\/strong>As nationwide racial justice protests continue, some journalists and protestors have noticed a new addition to the armed police officers and National Guard troops: a drone flying a hexagon-shaped route\u00a020,000 feet above the streets in Minneapolis. The drone, flown by\u00a0U.S. Customs and Border Protection<\/a><\/strong>, is called a Predator, and is a piece of military technology\u00a0used<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for identifying and targeting terrorists overseas. Lately, it\u2019s become a more common sight domestically.<\/p>\n

Last month, a number of New Yorkers witnessed a drone floating above them, barking orders to follow social distancing\u00a0guidelines. The\u00a0mysterious drone<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>wasn\u2019t official police equipment, but rather a privately owned device piloted by a man\u00a0named Xavier Arthur in Queens, who was frustrated that people weren\u2019t following stay-at-home orders. He\u00a0claimed<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to represent the \u201cAnti-Covid-19 Volunteer Drone Task Force.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s not an isolated incident. During the outbreak, drones have been used extensively to monitor residents and encourage them to stay indoors, to inspect traffic stops and hospitals, and to spray cities with disinfectants. In\u00a0Paris<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Mumbai<\/strong><\/a>, they\u2019re patrolling social distancing violators. In China, a video clip went viral,\u00a0showing a drone<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>breaking up a mahjong game\u2014residents had defied local orders that they\u00a0stay indoors. Drones with infrared cameras also\u00a0allegedly flew\u00a0overhead and checked for people with\u00a0fevers.<\/p>\n

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Advanced drones can pinpoint certain behaviors in crowds from high altitudes, recognize and automatically follow targets, and communicate with each other or to command centers on the ground with remarkable precision and low latency. The pandemic and protests are playing to the strengths of an emerging real-time aerial surveillance ecosystem.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

3 Things You Should Know<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. The Flying Internet of Things is taking off.<\/li>\n
  2. New drones can self-destruct.<\/li>\n
  3. Shareable drones may drive growth in the industry.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    From DSC: I can’t help but reflect on how slippery the slope is when we start talking about using drones — especially as sponsored and used by governments, including our government here in the U.S. Consider the following from The Future Institute. Excerpt: Eyes in the sky As nationwide racial justice protests continue, some journalists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,314,298,210,403,287,37,55,74,285,511,353,201,330,480,454,195,206,321,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-asia","category-data-related-items","category-emerging-technologies","category-ethics","category-europe","category-future","category-internet","category-leadership","category-legislation-legislatures","category-machine-to-machine-communications","category-moralsvalues","category-policy","category-political-science","category-society","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-tools","category-trends","category-united-states","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70933"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70938,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70933\/revisions\/70938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}