Autonomous drones can monitor the borders of European countries by 2020: the borders of Hungary, Portugal and Greece for a test stage. Anyway, this is the goal of the Portuguese Roborder company that has They secured 8 million euros in funding From the European Union, through the Horizon 2020 programme. This allocation dates back to 2017, but Article published by The Intercept On Saturday, I found out this information. The investigative website gained access to new internal documents, which raises questions about the ethics of such devices.
“The drones will use optical, infrared and thermal cameras, radars and radio frequency sensors.”, writes journalist Zack Campbell, who was able to speak with the developers and a representative for the company. On the other hand, it will not be a matter of linking these devices to the facial recognition system. The system will only say ‘this being is a human’, nothing more.confirms Kostas Ioannidis, technical director of the company.
But The Intercept questions whether the technology can’t be used for military purposes and sold to countries outside the European Union, which would raise questions about the principles for allocating European funding. “What will be revolutionary for the companies involved is a system that allows swarms of drones to operate automatically and in unison to reliably identify the target.”Zack Campbell warns.
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