Anyone own up?

the satellite blimp thingy also seems to be an attempt to make visible the gaze of the state - though it might seem covert, if citizens all know they are being watched, the object becomes that people regulate their own behaviour without the intervening influence of state authority. This is the notion anyway.

I am not too sure that the surveillance drones are likely to look like that blimp, they are more like tiny unmanned aeroplanes - and will be operated at around 20,000ft - which is out of the range of sight of someone on the ground - but I do agree a large part of surveillance is to instil in people the sense that the state is watching them everywhere and all the time - and like you say this leads to society regulating it's behaviour.