mo4ch:>Amazon patents ‘helpful’ surveillance delivery drones that totally don’t spy on your neighbors | Mo4ch News
Amazon has filed a patent for delivery drones that also surveil customers – for their own good, it claims, suggesting that a drone will inform people if there’s a fire or damage on their property but won’t snoop around.Users who consent to the surveillance get a helpful eye in the sky to spot if they’ve left the garage door open, or if someone’s broken their window, or if burglars are walking off with all their newly delivered Amazon goodies (the latter isn’t mentioned in the patent filing, but would presumably fall within its purview). Users could even subscribe to the surveillance service as a high-tech alarm system, hiring their own airborne Big Brother to do daily perimeter sweeps while they’re on vacation, or check up on the kids while they’re at work. Also on rt.comHomeland Security fuses all biometric data on an Amazon server - what could go wrong?Amazon claims its drones can be stopped from spying on non-consenting neighbors through geo-fencing, noting that “any image or data …