How Knightscope’s Security Robots Surveil the Public

Re:How Knightscope’s Security Robots Surveil the Public by stevenicr on Saturday November 16, 2019 @02:57PM (#21554577)

Think I read the DJI is making thier next gen of drones to auto spew this kind of info a certain distance from each flying drone, so that anyone with a DJI app can pull the info if they are X amount of feet from it when in use.. or something like that.

Long ago I posted the need for a 'Made where app' that would let you point your phone at products and get a list of where it's it made and components came from, not sure if something like that has come to be yet, I do not experiment with many apps from the play store as I find the lack of transparency about data sharing off putting.

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Re:How Knightscope’s Security Robots Surveil the Public by deogeo on Saturday November 16, 2019 @03:12PM (#21554662)

Sounds like the worst of both worlds. If you, a random citizen, buy robots/drones/computers, they will betray you (you, not their manufacturer or its owners), but this functionality will be disabled for corporate clients.

Very useful if you fly a drone over an industrial farm to document how they're polluting the local stream - they'll have your home address and send the cops to seize the footage (and all your computers) within the hour.

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