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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/
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The FAA Reauthorization Act, which President Obama is expected to sign, also orders the Federal Aviation Administration to develop regulations for the testing and licensing of commercial drones by 2015.
Privacy advocates say the measure will lead to widespread use of drones for electronic surveillance by police agencies across the country and eventually by private companies as well.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation also is “concerned about the implications for surveillance by government agencies,†said attorney Jennifer Lynch.
The provision in the legislation is the fruit of “a huge push by lawmakers and the defense sector to expand the use of drones†in American airspace, she added.
According to some estimates, the commercial drone market in the United States could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars once the FAA clears their use.
The agency projects that 30,000 drones could be in the nation’s skies by 2020.
It's cool. I am sure they won't get misused and they have our best intentions at mind.
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You know all of those movies where multinational corporations come to have their own police and or military?
Who is imitating who again?
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We already have scads of airborne surveillance from police planes and helicopters. Now a technology comes along that makes that exact same job infinitely safer and cheaper... and you object?
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Apparently someone doesn't have the word "escalation" in their vocabulary.
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This doesn't seem like a good idea for people who value privacy.
otoh, it will save foreign intelligence agencies lots of time and money if all they need to do is hack the existing drones when they want to monitor US activity.
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Eager_Igraine posted:
This doesn't seem like a good idea for people who value privacy.
otoh, it will save foreign intelligence agencies lots of time and money if all they need to do is hack the existing drones when they want to monitor US activity.
wtf values privacy anymore?
that notion went out the door when everyone became potential terrorists
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Koneg posted:
We already have scads of airborne surveillance from police planes and helicopters. Now a technology comes along that makes that exact same job infinitely safer and cheaper... and you object?
Exactly! And even then it is only the local cops overhead. We need homeland security to have these drones under them so that we can have an extra layer of surveillance above the locals. There are also vast areas of red states have no airborne surveillance. These areas could be sectioned off and covered by a drone.
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pilotless planes and driverless cars are the future
the legislation does nothing to 'ok' spy drones over the US.
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is it going to be against the law to chase them with remote control planes and such?
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Darkblade_The_Great posted:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/
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The FAA Reauthorization Act, which President Obama is expected to sign, also orders the Federal Aviation Administration to develop regulations for the testing and licensing of commercial drones by 2015.
Privacy advocates say the measure will lead to widespread use of drones for electronic surveillance by police agencies across the country and eventually by private companies as well.
wp posted:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation also is “concerned about the implications for surveillance by government agencies,†said attorney Jennifer Lynch.
The provision in the legislation is the fruit of “a huge push by lawmakers and the defense sector to expand the use of drones†in American airspace, she added.
According to some estimates, the commercial drone market in the United States could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars once the FAA clears their use.
The agency projects that 30,000 drones could be in the nation’s skies by 2020.
It's cool. I am sure they won't get misused and they have our best intentions at mind.
Yay1 The Moonie Times. You really thought it was The Washington Post, didn't you?
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