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submitted 11 months ago by deconstruct@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

The New York City police department plans to pilot the unmanned aircrafts in response to complaints about large gatherings, including private events, over Labor Day weekend, officials announced Thursday.

“If a caller states there’s a large crowd, a large party in a backyard, we’re going to be utilizing our assets to go up and go check on the party,” Kaz Daughtry, the assistant NYPD Commissioner, said at a press conference.

The plan drew immediate backlash from privacy and civil liberties advocates, raising questions about whether such drone use violated existing laws for police surveillance.

“It’s a troubling announcement and it flies in the face of the POST Act,” said Daniel Schwarz, a privacy and technology strategist at the New York Civil Liberties Union, referring to a 2020 city law that requires the NYPD to disclose its surveillance tactics. “Deploying drones in this way is a sci-fi inspired scenario.”

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[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 11 months ago

The US has a whole amendment to its constitution about it, and SCOTUS has been carving out exceptions at an accelerating pace, especially after the PATRIOT act.

But what is telling is how law enforcement can choose to implement technology without oversight or review, and it is up to the public to make an argument.

That said, I look forward to the method we develop to detect and neutralize or capture police drones, so we can ask to see a warrant.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Maybe the tech industry should stop "moving fast and breaking things".

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

This ties nicely to today's video from Sophie From Mars on AI - Our Shiny New Robot King which gets into the Silicon Valley business philosophy which is all about moving fast and breaking things.

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