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Are you smoking again?

Signal jammers would be a problem as well.

> I love the idea of having my own surveillance drone.

That's the point. Everybody loves to do surveillance but nobody wants to be the potential target. See the issue here?

What I'm saying is: Should society decide to want to abandon privacy, then it must be in a symmetric and very controlled manner. Everybody must then have the same degree of transparency over anybody else. Asymmetric transparency relationships are not ethic and very unhealthy for the stability of society, mid- long-term at least.

Unlimited range is the thing that makes this important (sexy for the average consumer).

On the receiving end, it means you will never be able to know who's watching you.

Your only defense against unwanted surveillance (by whomever) would then be to shoot the drone down.

(EDIT: So if the team is smart, it will sell to both sides and launch a kickstarter for a drone-detection-and-defense system.)

> why me? Was it something I said on Twitter or Facebook? Did I just look at him the wrong way without realising?

Yeah, don't think too far - it's probably your skin color that makes you a terrrist.

The UK should be kicked out of the EU. Until they learn how to behave.

Effing cheap intimidation pricks. One day it will come back to haunt them.

> Well 9/11 would have seemed a perfect fantasy on 9/10/2001.

Not at all. This scenario was well documented by the responsible government agencies before it happened.

So, by government logic, we'd have to start a War on Government Employee-ism...

EDIT: Seriously, just this 1 thought would warrant HUGE articles in papers like the New York Times. Obviously, this will never happen.

But one should not. "Terrorism", for the tiny, tiny little bit that happens in our country, was not here before.

Let's just switch to a sane foreign policy and be done with "terrorism". At least mid- and long-term, that's the only thing that will stop the recruiting of new "terrorists".

Or you just book a round trip with a few hours inside the US and you're good to go for the next 12 months in your home country.

This way you can opt for the wait-and-see approach regarding the evolution of the surveillance state trend and its ramifications.

That works, thanks!