[InternalRun]

It is inevitable that they will use drones to spy on us. It is cheap and easy, why send teams of people to track someone 24/7 when you can have a robot do it for you. Unless new laws are brought in this will become regular practice. We have all seen the drones DARPA are working on.

[iguana]

What makes you think we can legislate our way out of this?

[InternalRun]

I think it will take more than legislate alone but I think it would be a step in the right direction. I just really want some transparency. Recording where everyone is going and having a mass database of it and then PRISM collecting all information about who you call and your online activities is a very worrying idea and it is 70% implemented.

[iguana]

All it will do is make life difficult for autonomous vehicle startups, while the incumbent drone manufacturers will continue to design, produce, and sell drones to the FBI, for a massively lucrative markup.

Edit: just saw your edit. Technology essentially prevents physical anonymity, and if it doesn't today, it will within the next decade for sure.

I agree that what we all need is transparency.

[nathas]

The technology isn't going away, and public key crypto to protect your identity doesn't exist (visually) so...

[iguana]

...wear a hat? :)

You have no expectation of privacy in public. Otherwise, the paparazzi would be out of a job.

[PavlovsCat]

Not that I am a fan of paparazzis, but you are mistaking random people with persons of public interest.

If every person had a bunch of people following them, taking photos, video and notes, how long do you think that would hold up? And how is it different just because it gets automated and hidden?

[iguana]

It seems to have held up since the invention of cameras.

I see this as inevitable: the technology is nearly here, the market demand is certainly here, the dots will be connected, legally, or otherwise.

[PavlovsCat]

It seems to have held up

Bullshit. I asked you to imagine something, you just bumble off into nonsense.