No One Can Hide In Britain Anymore

The Mantis

The Spy In Your Sky -- Times Online

If you thought CCTV was intrusive, watch out for surveillance drones. These silent unmanned aircraft, which are used to seek out and destroy enemies in war zones, could soon be cruising in British airspace. Our writer took a test flight and asks: are they there to keep us safe or an assault on our privacy?

“No, no, no,” says the man at the police press office. “I’m weary of this. For the last time today, Kent police will not be flying drones, or spyplanes, or flying eyes or all-seeing flying robots, or anything else in British skies. You’ve all got the wrong end of the stick. Why’s that?

“It’s not allowed yet. So you will be, if it is allowed?

“No, no, no! We might be looking into the possibilities of the technology that might be available at some possible time in the future, but nothing is planned, nothing is ‘will be’, or ‘soon to be’. Sorry to spoil your fun. So I called the company that makes these flying drones, or spyplanes, or flying eyes or whatever, and they said: “We prefer to call them UAVs, actually. It’s short for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.”

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My Comment: Britain is already completely inundated with CCTVs .... drones will only be a higher platform to watch over all of us.

Sighhh .... if George Orwell was alive today, he would be patting his back on how prophetic his book 1984 has become when it came to the state and its obsessive desire to watch over all of us for every moment that we are outside.