Drones Disguised as Birds Are Here
Prepare to become extremely paranoid if you see a large bird flying around your house in the near future. The “bird” might just be a surveillance drone.
A Spanish company called Expal is marketing a drone that looks like a large bird, new reports reveal. The Shepherd-Mil unmanned forward observer is designed to fly 100 meters (or 33 feet) above the enemy and send pictures back to friendly forces. Perhaps this could come in useful for the Time Magazine reporter who called for a deadly drone strike on Wikileaks’ Julian Assange.
The Shepherd-Mil can be disguised as any large bird, Soffa Affaro Marco, Expal’s branding manager, told the press. He also said that ‘nobody can tell the device is a drone because it looks like a bird’.
Inexpensive Stealth Drones Coming
What’s really scary is that the Shepherd-Mil costs only around £1,000 ($1,588), the price of a desktop computer or a large plasma screen TV set. That means almost anybody with a credit card can afford one. To make things scarier, this device can be carried in two suitcases.
This looks like a spy device to me, and it seems priced to sell to the public. What’s really scary is that it could easy be used to look into windows and fly over yards to see what people are doing on their private property.
Expal claims this is for military purposes, but it’s easy to see how this could be used by police, private detectives, or paparazzi. My guess is that British tabloid journalists have already ordered theirs. Hollywood stars had better start taking a closer look at the large birds flying over Malibu and peering into their bedroom windows.
The next generation of privacy violating technology is here. Worst of all, it can be easily employed in the United States. Current Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations make it illegal for private individuals to deploy drones in the United States. The drone, disguised as a bird, can be without anybody seeing it or suspecting it has been used.
This drone looks as if it is designed to get around those regulations and make spying easier. Once again, technology is being abused to destroy individual rights and the very concept of privacy.
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