Drone pandemic: Will coronavirus invite the world to meet Big Brother? And straight from a dystopian film script—as successive lockdowns have been declared across the world from Wuhan to Lagos—authorities have begun turning to loudspeaker-equipped flying drones to enforce social distancing rules, a 2020 version of the van with a bullhorn on the roof, bellowing emergency alerts.
The Dawn of the Shout Drone: In the pandemic, authorities aren’t using drones to surveil people so much as to scold them.
