More Surveillance in the UK

January 26th, 2010 admin

This seems like a bad idea: Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the “routine” monitoring of antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance. Once again, laws and technologies deployed against terrorism are used against much more mundane crimes….


Originally posted on Schneier

 
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