Cheap Drones, AI, Make Drone Surveillance Ubiquitous

AI as a service applied to cheap drones means that any law enforcement agency can now have their own fleet of drones to spy on citizens. Of course, they will catch lawbreakers from time to time, but the rights and privacy of innocent civilians will be trampled.  ⁃ TN EditorAffordable consumer technology has made surveillance cheap and commoditized AI software has made it automatic.
Those two trends merged this week, when drone manufacturer DJI partneredJune 5 with Axon,