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Drones With an Eye on the Public Cleared to Fly

Posted on February 21st, 2012 at 10:53 by Desiato in category: News, Privacy, Security -- Write a comment

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His career will soon get back on track. A new federal law, signed by the president on Tuesday, compels the Federal Aviation Administration to allow drones to be used for all sorts of commercial endeavors — from selling real estate and dusting crops, to monitoring oil spills and wildlife, even shooting Hollywood films. Local police and emergency services will also be freer to send up their own drones.

But while businesses, and drone manufacturers especially, are celebrating the opening of the skies to these unmanned aerial vehicles, the law raises new worries about how much detail the drones will capture about lives down below — and what will be done with that information.

Police departments yesterday, your neighbor today. This happened much faster than I expected.

  1. Lots of tricky stuff ahead in this area. Once these drone get down to the size of insects, for example, are you permitted to swat them like a bug?

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