Anyone own up?

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.

it's such a broad stroke approach, number plater/facial recognition.. anything useful will not be picked up. CCTV fails to identify any detail. this is several 1,000 meters further away.

It's almost as if BAE has an friend in central Gvt who is keen for the police to use these. wonder what they will cost us.. wonder what they will cost when you go on to factor the computational power needed to analyse and store the data it captures, staff to run it and expensive consultants hired in to build a case showing how effective they are.

maybe that money should be better spent on those bomb detectors..