If any time a drone is launched, it's recorded to a publicly available website with its intended mission, freely available, I'd have far fewer qualms with their implementation. I don't disagree that there are good uses for these technologies. Just with how we don't not only know nothing about them, but we don't even know how to know anything about them, and often have no way to learn anything about them at all.
Yup, this is exactly right. Most of us don't necessarily have a problem with drones, or even wiretaps. We have a problem with secret drones, and secret wiretaps without any functioning system of accountability.
Totally agreed. Everyone hates surveillance until their daughter goes missing. On one hand it's a nessessity for security in a world where the average person is given tremendious killing power, and on the other hand uncontrolled surveillance is probably the biggest threat to government change, democracy and freedom.
There needs to be a system of checks and balances on the people who use surveillance. Heavy penalties, transparent operations, etc... Until this system gets balanced out everyone's going to be on edge for a while.
