Yay, and the price would only be ubiquitous surveillance of everyone 24/7. What a steal!
Inconvenient but there's literally no other way for this to go. Laws are our only hope -- technology will continue on its march.
Somewhat rant-y I know, but just kinda a cautionary around the "well we can trust the government to keep laws as initially written and not remove all the parts that are there to protect are rights".
“The right of a citizen to use public spaces without causing the creation of a long term, indexable, searchable, hashable record of their presence shall not be curtailed.”
Side note - I’m not even an American citizen but can evoke the style of the second amendment without much trouble. That’s soft power!
A drone can see into your windows, but you don’t have the expectation of privacy through your windows in the first place; for instance, you can be charged with indecent exposure for being naked in your own house if the blinds are open.[1]
> You shouldn’t be Identified (asked for an ID) without breaking the law, while a drone can record and facial recognize you without committing any offense.
It’s not generally based on whether you actually broke the law, but whether the police have “reasonable suspicion” that you did. The police can be reasonably suspicious of someone who, it turns out, did not break the law.
Also, once you’re in public, anyone with a phone can record you and upload it to a social media network, most of which probably have more extensive facial recognition databases than the police.
One thing the police do have though, is that the dash cams in their patrol vehicles can scan license plates and alert them if a vehicle was reported stolen or if the registered owner has warrants.
[1] https://www.valleycentral.com/news/local-news/police-provide...
They do indicate where loud noises are happening. That's might not be an actionable place to send an officer 15 minutes from now, which is the status quo, but it might be a great place to have drone video in 60 seconds.
The point of a shot spotter is to tell the PD where the loud noises are happening. Which the shot spotter can't do effectively.
If you wanted to know something was happening, people already phone in when gunshots are heard.
"Findings indicate GDT [gunshot detection technology] generates time savings and increases spatial precision as compared to CFS [9-1-1 calls for service]."
* If all know is that a loud noise happened, in a general area, you don't know much.
* If you know that a loud noise happened, and you see a video of kids lighting off fireworks, you have a pretty good idea that it wasn't gunshots, and that it isn't worth sending humans.
* If you know that a loud noise happened, and you see people with guns or people lying in the street, you may have a good reason to send a human response.