Re: environmental surveillance (call me paranoid)

CORRECTION
DYI Kits already available
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=bird+drone+kit
may only need some personalization/tweaking

On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 1:56 AM Paola Di Maio <paoladimaio10@gmail.com>
wrote:

> These things have been technically feasible for a long time
> The movies often capture and project future scenarios,
> do you think Julius Verne
> https://www.britannica.com/story/did-jules-verne-invent-the-submarine
> knew that someone was designing submarines?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_submarines
>
> Now this Technology is becoming rather popular because it is useful and
> very fun (if not used maliciously) and can be made easily, inexpensively
>
> Developed in labs where they do not exactly say what they do (very common)
> and deployed without anyone knowing.  There is no legislation to say it
> cannot be done and deployed
> afaik
> especially if the intent is not malicious (survey the crop etc)
>
> I expect a DYI kit to be available online at some point (make your own
> fly/bird  drone)
>
> With my engineer hat on, I think these are beautiful and open to creativity
> (imagine feathers like this, flying style like this etc).
>  As a paranoid citizen, I can only  keep my swimsuit tight on and wonder
> where is the world heading
>
> Philosophically, this brings the question of biological and natural
> reality becoming mixed with artificial reality.
>
> Psychologically, every time I see a bird perkin on my window sill I feel
> alerted to the possibility
> and wonder whether I should  seek counselling
>
>  I just wanted to make a note of the eventuality
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 3:37 PM ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program <
> metadataportals@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Technically, such surveillance technologies would fall under video
>> surveillance, but I have no clue if current EU legislation covers such
>> technologies. I have some scientific literature on drones for use in
>> protected areas, but do not recall bird and insect like drones mentioned
>> specifically.
>>
>> The movie Eye in the Sky (2015) shows use of a sophisticated drone
>> disguised as a fly for audio and video surveillance. Whether this
>> technology actually exists now is the question, but swarms of such
>> miniature drones controlled by an central AI would be possible and could
>> pose nightmare scenarios.
>>
>> Milton Ponson
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>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 10:23:18 PM AST, Paola Di Maio <
>> paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I do not think thre is a law that can prevent people from buying
>> surveillance gadgets freely
>> https://www.analyticsinsight.net/the-advent-of-robotic-birds/
>> https://spectrum.ieee.org/fly-robot-fly
>>
>> some are cute and highly sophisticated *move heads and wings like real
>> birds'and insects
>> being tested on beaches worldwide
>> (better keep the swimsuit on at all times)
>>
>> implications for AI KR? (cant think of any)
>>
>>
>>