Surveillance CCTV in the sky: police plan to use military-style spy drones
Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the "routine" monitoring of antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance. [...] They reveal the partnership intends to begin using the drones in time for the 2012 Olympics.