This seems like a reasonable way to police. My only issue is if the drones can be 'heard' flying over a location. For example, buzzing over a specific house or business. Neighbors would automatically assume danger or guilt. If they drone, they should stay out of ear-range from anyone on the ground. Nobody should hear surveillance.
As for your issue, hearing the sound is a form of noise pollution. Its generally acceptable to have that during 9 to 5 but not during the night. Because it interferes with people's sleep, you can call the cops for a complaint. Not sure what they'd do if the drone owner is the FBI though.
As for the long term health effects of surveillance, we got Das Leben Der Anderen (The Lives Of Others) [1] already but additionally I'm anticipating seeing that covered in the documentary The Feeling of Being Watched about Operation Vulgar Betrayal. Quoting the About page [2]:
"In the Arab-American neighborhood outside of Chicago where director Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of her neighbors think they have been under surveillance for over a decade. While investigating their experiences, Assia uncovers hundreds of pages of declassified FBI documents that prove her hometown was the subject of one of the largest counterterrorism investigations ever conducted in the U.S. before 9/11 – code-named “Operation Vulgar Betrayal.”
With unprecedented access, The Feeling of Being Watched weaves the personal and the political as it follows the filmmaker’s examination of why her community fell under blanket government surveillance. Assia struggles to disrupt the government secrecy shrouding what happened to her neighborhood in the 90’s and probes why her community feels like they’re still being watched today. In the process, she confronts long-hidden truths about the FBI’s relationship to her community.
The Feeling of Being Watched follows Assia as she pieces together this secret FBI operation, while grappling with the effects of a lifetime of surveillance on herself and her family."
Documentary is scheduled for 2018. Kickstarter page [3].
What, then, is an unreasonable way to police? Is it okay with you that many of these flights have infrared and other technology that lets agents of the state monitor and listen to you in your own home, in addition to ubiquitous tracking? If the enforcement of law is all that matters, why stop at 24/7 surveillance of all people, all the time? Without freedom and privacy, what good is the law? If physical safety is your only concern surely we'd all be more safe if we were locked in our own individual cells, all the time.
I have no problem with surveillance if it stops crime. Private surveillance cameras are already pretty much everywhere and no one seems to mind. My ideal form of surveillance would be passive though. The data would be recorded, but no human would have access to it without something like a search warrant. And everything would be deleted after a week. Just like with private surveillance cameras.
> My only issue is if the drones can be 'heard' flying over a location.
Surveillance drones are quiet and fly high enough they can't be heard and are hard to spot. The only reason to fly them low enough to be heard or seen is for intimidation.
Seems like Microsoft is trying to brand a cached proxy for Git...? This would make more sense as a paid service for those that need it. Possibly, a local appliance that a company would host internally. What am I missing...?
It's a virtualization layer for the Git object database (all the hash-named files in a repository's .git folder) intended for sparsely checking out large git repositories (lots of commit history, huge trees of files, etc), and only downloading the objects you need as you need them.
It defines a "CDN protocol" for downloading those objects as needed (which Bitbucket and GitHub are both supporting in various alpha/beta stages), which is essentially a cache offered as a paid service to big enterprise projects, but the GVFS project also has to make sure that git operates as efficiently as possible with sparse object databases, and implements how those sparse object databases work at all (which to this point was not something git concerned itself with, and partly why the work is being done as a filesystem proxy using placeholder files on the user's machine).
The project has included work in making sure that git commands touch as few objects from the object database as they can to get their work done (minimizing downloads from a remote server).
Can someone explain to me why there is no Federal regulation requiring the ISP, and anyone else collecting data on us, to provide full disclosure to the customer whose data is being collected? Also, why are there no laws requiring an audit process on erroneous data?
In America, the credit reporting agencies are required to provide a free detailed report annually and there is a legally-mandated dispute process in place for false/erroneous data. Why don't we have the same protections/process for metadata collection?
Instead of expecting data-collecting companies to police themselves, we must insist on regulation requiring free, full disclosure of all data collected and a legal process to have false/erroneous data collection challenged and removed.
The biggest danger is not that they collect this information, but that there is no AUDIT PROCESS to correct false information.
I'm not really sure what answer you're looking for here. The basic answer is that the system is corrupt and the interests of big corporations are heard much louder than the interests of individual constituents who don't have as many dollars to throw around capitol hill.
The reality is: privacy is no longer possible in a connected world. So, rather than worrying about collection/privacy. Maybe, the best use of our energy is best-spent trying to pass laws that standardize disclosure to the customer and the mandating of an audit process...?
Privacy is completely and entirely possible. It's not good for corporations, and they literally own the US Congress, so that affects everyone else in the world.
Sorry you feel that way, are there any points you disagree with?
I'm in no way affiliated with or remunerated by Google. I've just spent a lot of time in the past comparing both and wanted to share that with the community.
