Amazon patents airship warehouse system

[ik9000]

How long til they put cameras on it to film us all - in the name of "research" to assist "targetted marketing". Where do we stop this merry go round of paranoia? I mean it's not like they've released a product to listen to us in our homes is it?

[Saracen]

How long til they put cameras on it to film us all - in the name of "research" to assist "targetted marketing". Where do we stop this merry go round of paranoia? I mean it's not like they've released a product to listen to us in our homes is it?

I hear you, but there is a difference .... with that product for our homes, it is extremely easy to opt out. Simply don't buy it.

Rather more insidious are Smart TVs that repirt back to the makers on how you use your TV.

It is about time that "government" took a narkedly more pro-active role in protecting our privacy from unwanted intrusion, and at a very minimum made such things illegal without genuinely informed consent, or better yet, made them opt-in only.

After all, store "reward" cards set a precedent. Stores offer them, but we don't have to take them. And to induce us to do so, they offer deals, bargains, discounts, etc. So, we all have a choice ....sell data about our shopping habits, or don't. Me? As I'm sure regulars will remember, or guess, I don't. That's my choice - keep my privacy and forego the so-called rewards. Many people either don't care about their privacy, or don't much value it, so sell it for the "rewards".

But either way, WE ought to control who records, analyses, manipulates and uses/sells our data.

Secondly, UK regulations on flying drones over populated areas are pretty tight as it stands, and as soon as you put a camera on it, it gets even tougher. I'm not convinced this surveillance mode is a goer any time soon.

If it is, as someone said earlier, I predict a dramatic upsurge in sales of air rifles, catapults or even radio signal jammers.

[scaryjim]

... I predict a dramatic upsurge in sales of air rifles, catapults or even radio signal jammers.

Personally, I'd be investing £20 in a pistol crossbow

[Saracen]

Personally, I'd be investing £20 in a pistol crossbow

I wouldn't be investing in any of them.
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[Smudger]

It is about time that "government" took a narkedly more pro-active role in protecting our privacy from unwanted intrusion, and at a very minimum made such things illegal without genuinely informed consent, or better yet, made them opt-in only.
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I don't think this government has any interest in protecting privacy, very much the other way!

[Saracen]

I don't think this government has any interest in protecting privacy, very much the other way!

Quite. It's one downside of Brexit because the EU does seem rather more proactive.

[ik9000]

Quite. It's one downside of Brexit because the EU does seem rather more proactive.

one of the many! And I agree with you- I wish our MPs would do more, but the current lot with snoopers charters and the like seem to have scant interest in that. They can't pull their finger out to sort out Southern Rail so they're not going to try to do something more difficult are they!