Dronology: America’s flying eye pries on its own people
A staple of Washington’s war missions, targeted assassinations and spying operations overseas, unmanned aerial vehicles, known as drones, are now being used by US police in the domestic arena, stirring up privacy concerns among Americans.According to John Whitehead, a constitutional attorney from the Rutherford Institute, US police departments have been authorized to use drones extensively in pursuit of their duties on home soil.
“There have been, I think, almost 266 applications that have been approved for police departments to use drones as aerial surveillance devices,” he said..... MORE
Source: RT.com
URL: http://rt.com/news/us-drone-police-privacy-251/
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