Drones to Protect: Shared-Value Analysis of Aerial Surveillance during the COVID-19 Pandemic, and Ethical Framework Development for Future Crises

由于应用广泛，空中监控一直是疫情期间干预讨论的核心，不可否认，空中监控有能力成为抗击新冠肺炎的核心力量。然而，此次危机期间实施的每一项程序都开创了世界如何应对未来危机的先例。因此，政府机构必须与公众合作，找到能够产生持久积极影响的解决方案。伦敦政治经济学院的乔纳森·怀特教授总结了这一过程的复杂性：“恐惧产生了一种容易被滥用的政治行动的欲望--一种为各种干预鼓掌并哀叹它们的缺席的冲动。它为难以控制、既有好有坏的新权力创造了许可证。“任由恐惧产生前所未有的权力只会适得其反，因为它会破坏民主自由，并有可能永久损害我们对技术创新的看法，使其利益面临永远不被利用的风险。因此，问题不仅在于使用的潜力，还在于使用的道德应用。虽然实施空中监视来跟踪和监控很简单，但它也使一个“老大哥”制度正常化。因此，我们必须从历史中吸取教训，确保对“黑天鹅事件”做出适当的反应，因为在这些事件中，公民自由经常被抛弃。WECORP提议与伦敦国王学院开展一个联合研究项目，以深入了解空中监视在大流行危机期间和之后的影响。这项研究的重点是空中安全提供者，以及不同提供者可能对公众信任的影响。获得的数据将详细了解公众对政府机构、知名科技巨头使用的监控方法的看法，以及道德挑战者以公民为中心的无人机应用替代模式。WECORP建立在这样一个信念之上：技术可以通过增强社区对程序的参与来缓解我们社区的安全挑战。这一理念迫使我们的核心运营原则--我们的服务需要积极影响现状，让事情变得更好，而不仅仅是提供做旧事情的新方法--让我们成为安全行业的挑战者。我们的研究针对英国所有地区的代表性样本，我们将汇总必要的数据，以了解在英国各地合乎道德地实施空中安全的最佳路径。

Aerial surveillance has been central to the discussion of intervention during the pandemic with an undeniable ability to become a central force in the fight against COVID-19 due to a wide spectrum of applications.However, every procedure enacted during this crisis creates a precedent for how the world will respond to future crises, therefore, it is imperative that government agencies work together with the general public to find solutions that will have lasting positive impacts, setting the bar high whilst still attending to the crisis that we are facing.Professor Jonathan White of the London School of Economics and Political Science concludes on the complexity of such processes:"Fear creates a desire for political action easily abused -- an impulse to applaud interventions of all kinds and to bemoan their absence. It creates a licence for new powers that are hard to control, and precedents bad as well as good."Allowing fear to yield unprecedented power is counterproductive as it undermines democratic freedom and risks permanently damaging our perception of technological innovation, putting its benefits at risk of never being used.The question then is not only potential, but also the ethical applications of use. Whilst it is simple to implement aerial surveillance to track and monitor, it also normalises a 'big brother' regime.It is therefore crucial that we learn from history to ensure appropriate reactions to 'black swan events', where civil liberties are often discarded.WECORP proposes a joint-research project with King's College London to develop insights on the effects of aerial surveillance during and after a pandemic crisis.The research focuses on aerial security providers and the impact various providers may have on public trust. The data acquired will provide a detailed understanding of public perception vis-a-vis surveillance methods used by government agencies, known tech giants, and an alternative citizen-centric model of drone application by ethical challengers.WECORP was founded on the belief that technology can relieve safety challenges in our communities by empowering community participation in the procedure.This philosophy compels our core operating principle -- our services need to positively affect the status quo, make things better, not just provide new ways of doing old things -- making us a Challenger in the security industry.With our research targeting a representative sample of all UK districts, we will aggregate the data necessary to understand the best path to ethically implement aerial security across the UK.