From: NY Post
- By DAVID SEIFMAN
- Last Updated: 5:15 PM, March 22, 2013
- Posted: 5:12 PM, March 22, 2013
Like it or not, the eye in the sky will soon be following your every move, according to Mayor Bloomberg.
"You can't keep the tides from coming in," the mayor remarked when asked about drones on his weekly radio show.
"We're going to have more visibility and less privacy. I just don't see how you could stop that."
The
NYPD already has cameras mounted at strategic locations around the city
and there's no reason, by the mayor's reckoning, that they have to
attached to light poles.
"It's scary. What's the difference if a drone is up in the air or on a building," he said.
REUTERS
A Draganflyer X6 drone aircraft owned by Mesa County, Colorado's Sheriff's Department.
"I
mean, intellectually, I have trouble making a distinction. And you know
you're going to have face recognition software. People are working on
that."
The mayor put the timeframe for an all-seeing society at about five years, when he estimated "there'll be cameras every place."
Using
the same line of reasoning, Bloomberg urged Albany to approve speed
cameras to catch motorists going too fast on city streets.
"The argument against using automation, it's this craziness-- oh, it's big brother. Get used to it. When
there's a murder, a shooting, a robbery of something the first thing
the police do is go to every single building in the neighborhood and say
let's see your security camera," he said.
He mistakenly put the speed limit here at 35 miles per hour. It's actually 30.
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