The eye in the sky will soon be following your every move, says Mayor Bloomberg.
“You can’t keep the tides from coming in,” the mayor remarked when asked about drones on his weekly radio show. There will “be cameras every place . . . Get used to it.”
He said surveillance will be commonplace in five years.
“We’re going to have more visibility and less privacy,” Bloomberg said. “I just don’t see how you could stop that.”
The NYPD already has cameras mounted at strategic locations around the city; and there’s no reason, by the mayor’s reckoning, that they have to be attached to light poles. “It’s scary. What’s the difference if a drone is up in the air or on a building?” he said
“I mean, intellectually, I have trouble making a distinction. And you know you’re going to have face-recognition software. People are working on that.”