British politican Lady O'Cathain ignited a Twitter storm when she made a comment during a committee meeting which belied her lack of internet fluency.

O'Cathain made the inflammatory comments during a House of Lords Committee meeting tasked with discussing the privacy implications of personal drones - which she was chairing.

She stated that she was "horrified" to be "given a certain website" where she "could see the roses in my garden".

She continued "It was on a Google map or something, and I have no idea how it was taken".

"It was taken from up there", she added, referring to the angle from which drones would be able to take photographs.

"Obviously it was not a large aircraft but this is happening".

"It did not fill me with a sense of security", she concluded.

Twitter users were quite concerned over the comments and the fact that the person who made the comments is the one discussing and helping to drive technology policy.

One Twitter user asked "How can anyone be so out of touch" while another quipped "I have a draft blog post in which I sort of defend her, but I can't finish it for laughing?"

Online Editors