14 
It was inevitable. Drones are in ever-wider use by the military, and some day they might deliver you food, but it looks like they’ll also be the private, flying-camera spies for private companies too. That’s what Japanese security company Secom is banking on with its new private security quadrotor.
Billed as the first security drone intended for private security firms, Secom’s upcoming drone is a customised Ascending Technologies quadrotor outfitted to spot and follow ne’er-do-wells like nosy, mobile security cameras. The drones will have the ability to track suspects with lasers, and know better than to rush into melee range. They won’t be making their actual debut until 2014, at which point they can be rented for ¥5,000 (£36) per month.
Better get your counter-drone army together, because it looks like the future will be full of these suckers, from those owned by the government, to loss-prevention models owned by the local Walmart. The future is cloudy; the sky’s full of drones. [PhysOrg via Engadget]
An Important Message From Sony’s Chief Information Security Officer: "OH GOD, NO, IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN"
Oh for the Love of God, Not Another Bloody Standards War
Zuckerberg's Private Photos Revealed in Facebook Security Flap
As much as I would love to own a drone, they just look really flimsy. I know they are not but I would be to afraid to fly is just in case it did break. I would just sit at home in a dull lit room, staring at it and making slight buzzing rotor noises as if it is in action.
Wonder how much effort it would take to take one of these out using a catapult… I can see it becoming a sport. Mark this day. You heard it from me first.
Still have a long way to go before we see these flying overhead in our towns and cities.
Knocking these things out of the sky and harvesting them for parts will be fun though.
meh…i have hoardes of flying monkies at my disposal..